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 is
Béla H. Bánáthy
Béla Heinrich Bánáthy ( hu, Bánáthy Béla; December 1, 1919 – September 4, 2003) was a Hungarian-American linguist, and Professor at San Jose State University and UC Berkeley. He is known as founder of the White Stag Leadership Developme ...
. 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 research.
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Biological system
A biological system is a complex network which connects several biologically relevant entities. Biological organization spans several scales and are determined based different structures depending on what the system is. Examples of biological syst ...
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Emergent organization
An emergent organization (alternatively emergent organisation) is an organization that spontaneously emerges from and exists in a complex dynamic environment or market place, rather than being a construct or copy of something that already exists ...
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Evolutionary computation
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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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