Complex Systems

Concepts

• System
• Complexity
• Network
• Nonlinearity
• Emergence
• Spontaneous order and self-organization
• Adaption

Features

• Cascading failures
• Open system
• Critical transitions
• Memory
• Nested
• Dynamic network
• Emergent phenomenon
• Nonlinear relationship
• Feedback loops

Keywords

• Phase space
• Parameter
• Chaos theory
• Gene regulatory network
• Butterfly effect
• Cellular automaton
• Collective behavior
• Herd behavior
• Adaptive system
• Coupling
• Damping
• Hysteresis