System
Origin: Lat. systēma
A set of elements or parts that is coherently organized and interconnected in a pattern or structure that produces a characteristic set of behaviors, often classified as its "function" or "purpose". A system is a set of elements dynamically interacting and organized according to a purpose: the maintenance of the system structure.
Spanish: Sistema
Sources and references
- Jackson. Michael “Foresight Glossary”cited 180 times
- Destatte, Philippe y Philippe Durance “Les mot-clés de la prospective territoriale”cited 56 times
Term connections
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- Access point
- Action research
- Actor (stakeholder, agent)
- Agent model quick basic program
- Alien life
- Alternative (option)
- Alternative paradigm
- Analog
- Anticipation Science
- Anticipatory Awareness/ Futures Consciousness
- Archetype
- Arlington impact index
- Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
- Artificial intelligence
- Artificial neural networks
- Autonomous decisionmaking
- Aspirational futures
- Attractor
- Automaton (pl. Automata)
- Autonomous or excluded variables
- Avalanche models
- Bandwidth
- Bequest values
- Beta test
- BIAS
- Boolean Logic/Boole Technique
- Butterfly effect
- Catastrophe theory
- Causality
- Change management
- Chaos Analysis Use in Forecasting
- Chaos theory
- Closed system
- Cocreative society
- Complex adaptive systems
- Complexity
- Computer Modeling
- Computer simulation
- Concept map
- Consensus democracy
- Control theory
- Convergence
- Counter-intuitive
- Cross impact analysis method
- Cyber crime
- Cybernetics
- Cyclical analysis
- Darwinism
- Deep ecology
- Delphi method
- Dependent variables or result variables
- Determinism
- Digital networks
- Disconnected variables
- Drivers
- Dynamic equilibrium
- Dynamical systems models
- Dynamo
- Early warning system
- Econometrics models
- Economism
- Ecosystem
- Ecosystem management
- Emerging technology
- Entropy
- Environmental impact
- Environmental scanning
- Epoch A
- Equilibrium models
- Evolution (co-evolution)
- Evolutionary spiral of development
- Exogenous (variables)
- Expectable Future
- Expert system
- Extended benefit-cost analysis
- Extropianism
- Extropy
- Factor
- Failure mode
- Feedback
- Feedback loop
- Flow
- Folksonomy
- Force-field analysis
- Forecast
- Foresight attitude
- Foresight methods
- Foresight thinking
- Fork, Bifurcation
- Futures consciousness
- Fuzzy logic
- Global civilization
- Global dynamics
- Global Marshall Plan
- Global models
- Globalism
- Globalization
- Gödel’s incompleteness theorem
- Great civilization
- Greenhouse gases
- Groupware
- Guard rails
- Hacker
- Harmonic oscillator
- Heuristic modeling
- Hidden attractor
- Hierarchy
- Holism
- Holistic
- Holon
- IBIS, Issue based information system
- Implicate order
- Industrial ecology
- Inertia
- Influent variable
- Informatics
- Information warfare
- Integrated global models
- Interpretative paradigm
- Key forces
- Lag
- Large language models
- Law of diminishing/accelerating returns
- Lead time
- Learning system
- Life cycle
- Limit
- Limiting factor
- Linear extrapolation
- Linear relationship
- Linear systems
- Logic
- Logical inference
- Long-term Strategic Management System Integration Model (LSMSIM)
- Lorenz attractor
- Macrohistory
- Macroshift
- Mathematical model
- Meme, memes or memetic code
- Methods table
- MID Matrix of direct influence
- Millennium Development Goals
- Millennium Project
- Modeling
- Moore’s Law
- Morphological analysis
- Multimedia
- Multiple perspective method
- Nanobot
- Negative feedback
- Neural networks
- Network analysis
- Networks
- Noise
- Nonlinear
- Normative scenarios
- Ontology
- Open system
- Operations research
- Optimization
- Oscillation
- Overshoot and collapse
- Paradigm
- Parameter
- Pertinence tree
- Phase space
- Physical simulation elements
- Positive feedback
- Post-materialism
- Predictability
- Primary/secondary/tertiary effects
- Probabilistic system dynamics
- Process mapping
- Prospective attitude
- Quantum theory
- Real Time Delphi
- Real-Time Spatial Delphi
- Reductionism
- Regression analysis
- Regulation
- Reinforcing feedback loop
- Reinforcing feedback
- Reliability
- Resilience
- Retroaction
- Reversible
- Robotics
- Rupture
- Rupture (discontinuity, breakdown)
- Scenarios
- Self-assembly
- Self-organizing
- Sigmoid curve/ S curve
- Simulation
- Simulation modeling
- Simultaneous equations
- Singularity
- SMIC method
- Social synergy
- Soft technology
- Space technology
- Spaceship earth
- Stake variables
- Starlogo
- Statistical analysis
- Statistical modeling
- Stock
- Strange attractor
- Strategic and tactics
- Strategy and tactics
- Structural analysis
- Sub-optimization
- Synergistic convergence
- Synergy
- Synocracy
- Syntropy
- System dynamics
- System sciences
- Systemic
- Systemic methods
- Systems analysis
- Systems dynamics
- Systems foresight, systems thinking, holistic perspective
- Systems theory
- Systems thinking
- Taxonomy
- Tech-cast
- Technology roadmapping
- Technology sequence analysis (TSA)
- Time horizon (event horizon, timeframe)
- Top-down process
- Tree of knowledge (TOK)
- Trend
- Triz
- Trust interval or certainty (accuracy) interval
- Turbulence
- Ubiquitous computing
- Uncertain
- Uncertainty principle
- Utopia
- Variable
- Variables
- Variation
- Vertical levels
- Virtual reality
- Voice (speech) recognition
- Web
- Wild card
- Wild cards
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