Synergetics deals with systems composed of many subsystems which may each be of a very different nature. In particular, synergetics treats systems in which cooperation among subsystems creates organized structure on macroscopic scales (Haken 1993). Examples of problems treated by synergetics include bifurcations, phase transitions in physics, convective instabilities, coherent oscillations in lasers, nonlinear oscillations in electrical circuits, population dynamics, etc.
Synergetics
See also
Bifurcation, Chaos, Dynamical System, Synergetics CoordinatesExplore with Wolfram|Alpha
References
Buckminster Fuller, R. Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking. New York: Macmillan, 1975.Buckminster Fuller, R. Synergetics 2, Vol. 1. New York: Macmillan, 1979a.Buckminster Fuller, R. Synergetics 2, Vol. 2. New York: Macmillan, 1979b.Haken, H. Synergetics, an Introduction: Nonequilibrium Phase Transitions and Self-Organization in Physics, Chemistry, and Biology, 3rd rev. enl. ed. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1983.Haken, H. Advanced Synergetics: Instability Hierarchies of Self-Organizing Systems and Devices. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1993.Mikhailov, A. S. Foundations of Synergetics: Distributed Active Systems, 2nd ed. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1994.Mikhailov, A. S. and Loskutov, A. Y. Foundations of Synergetics II: Complex Patterns, 2nd ed., enl. rev. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1996.Weisstein, E. W. "Books about Synergetics." http://www.ericweisstein.com/encyclopedias/books/Synergetics.html.Tschacher, W. and Dauwalder, J.-P. (Eds.). Dynamics, Synergetics, Autonomous Agents: Nonlinear Systems Approaches to Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Science. Singapore: World Scientific, 1999.Referenced on Wolfram|Alpha
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