Systems thinking

Collective intelligence

  • Collective action
  • Self-organized criticality
  • Herd mentality
  • Phase transition
  • Agent-based modelling
  • Synchronization
  • Ant colony optimization
  • Particle swarm optimization
  • Swarm behaviour

    • Social network analysis

  • Small-world networks
  • Centrality
  • Motifs
  • Graph theory
  • Scaling
  • Robustness
  • Systems biology
  • Dynamic networks

    • Evolutionary computation

  • Genetic algorithms
  • Genetic programming
  • Artificial life
  • Machine learning
  • Evolutionary developmental biology
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Evolutionary robotics

    • Reaction–diffusion systems

  • Partial differential equations
  • Dissipative structures
  • Percolation
  • Cellular automata
  • Spatial ecology
  • Self-replication

    • Information theory

  • Entropy
  • Feedback
  • Goal-oriented
  • Homeostasis
  • Operationalization
  • Second-order cybernetics
  • Self-reference
  • System dynamics
  • Systems science
    • Systems thinking
  • Sensemaking
  • Variety

    • Ordinary differential equations

  • Phase space
  • Attractors
  • Population dynamics
  • Chaos
  • Multistability
  • Bifurcation

    • Rational option theory

  • Bounded rationality

    • Systems thinking is a way of creating sense of a complexity of the world by looking at it in terms of wholes in addition to relationships rather than by splitting it down into its parts. It has been used as a way of exploring and coding effective action in complex contexts. Systems thinking draws on and contributes to systems theory and the system sciences.