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Systems science is an transdisciplinary^[1] field that studies the nature of systems—from simple to complex—in nature, society, cognition, engineering, technology and science itself. To systems scientists, the world can be understood as a system of systems. The field aims to develop interdisciplinary foundations that are applicable in a variety of areas, such as psychology, biology, medicine, communication, business management, engineering, and social sciences.

Systems science covers formal sciences such as complex systems, cybernetics, dynamical systems theory, information theory, linguistics or systems theory. It has applications in the field of the natural and social sciences and engineering, such as control theory, operations research, social systems theory, systems biology, system dynamics, human factors, systems ecology, systems engineering and systems psychology. Themes commonly stressed in system science are (a) holistic view, (b) interaction between a system and its embedding environment, and (c) complex (often subtle) trajectories of dynamic behavior that sometimes are stable (and thus reinforcing), while at various 'boundary conditions' can become wildly unstable (and thus destructive). Concerns about Earth-scale biosphere/geosphere dynamics is an example of the nature of problems to which systems science seeks to contribute meaningful insights.

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A kilogram mass and three metric measuring devices: a tape measure in centimetres, a thermometer in degrees Celsius, and a multimeter that measures potential in volts, current in amperes and resistance in ohms.

The metric system is a system of measurement that is a decimal system. The current international standard for the metric system is the International System of Units (Système international d'unités or SI), in which all units can be expressed in terms of seven base units. The units that serves as the SI base units are the metre, kilogram, second, ampere, kelvin, mole, and candel. (Full article...)

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Hugo Otto Engelmann (September 11, 1917 – February 2, 2002) was an American sociologist, anthropologist and general systems theorist. Throughout his work he emphasized the significance of history. (Full article...)

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Joseph Francis Shea Herbert A. Simon Herman Kahn Kevin Warwick Dennis Meadows W. Ross Ashby Margaret Mead Stuart Umpleby Norbert Wiener Peter Stoica Leonhard Euler Béla H. Bánáthy Benoit Mandelbrot David Easton Edsger W. Dijkstra Gerard de Zeeuw Henri Poincaré Hendrik Wade Bode Kevin Warwick Ralph W. Gerard Yu-Chi Ho Debora Hammond Edward Goldsmith

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... * then a science of complexity,
... that the American systems scientist John Nelson Warfield found systems science to consist of a hierarchy of sciences.
... that the American ecologist Howard T. Odum in 1950 gave a novel definition of ecology as the study of large entities (ecosystems) at the "natural level of integration".
... that the anthropologist, linguist, and cyberneticist Gregory Bateson's most noted writings are Steps to an Ecology of Mind (1972) and Mind and Nature (1980).

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