Evolutionary systems are a type of system, which reproduce with mutation whereby the most fit elements survive, and the less fit die down.
One of the developers of the evolutionary
systems thinking
Systems thinking is a way of making sense of the complexity of the world by looking at it in terms of wholes and relationships rather than by splitting it down into its parts.Anderson, Virginia, & Johnson, Lauren (1997). ''Systems Thinking Ba ...
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Béla H. Bánáthy.
Evolutionary systems are characterized by "moving equilibria and the dynamics of coevolutionary interactions which can not be foreseen ex ante."
[Rammel, Christian, and Jeroen CJM van den Bergh. "Evolutionary policies for sustainable development: adaptive flexibility and risk minimising." Ecological Economics 47.2 (2003): 121-133.]
The study of evolutionary systems is an important subcategory of
Complex Systems
A complex system is a system composed of many components that may interact with one another. Examples of complex systems are Earth's global climate, organisms, the human brain, infrastructure such as power grid, transportation or communication s ...
research.
See also
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Biological system
A biological system is a complex Biological network inference, network which connects several biologically relevant entities. Biological organization spans several scales and are determined based different structures depending on what the system is ...
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Emergent organization
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Evolutionary computation
Evolutionary computation from computer science is a family of algorithms for global optimization inspired by biological evolution, and the subfield of artificial intelligence and soft computing studying these algorithms. In technical terms ...
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Evolutionary systems development
References
Further reading
* Bentley, Peter, and David Corne. ''Creative evolutionary systems.'' Morgan Kaufmann, 2002.
* Csanyi, Vilmos. ''Evolutionary systems and society: a general theory.'' Durham, Duke University Press. (1989).
* Hommes, Carsien Harm. "Financial markets as nonlinear adaptive evolutionary systems." Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper, No. 01-014/1 (2001)
* Rocha, Luis Mateus.
Selected self-organization and the semiotics of evolutionary systems." Evolutionary Systems: The Biological and Epistemological Perspectives on Selection and Self- Organization, . S. Salthe, G. Van de Vijver, and M. Delpos (eds.). Kluwer Academic Publishers, (1998) pp. 341–358.
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