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Subjects
Cosma provides access to content resources organized around these basic elements of a Communication System: Media (channel), Knowledge (message), Human (sender/receiver) and Noise (interference). See also Outline (Site Map)

Subheadings
System Cycle, Structure, Growth, Complexity, Control, Disturbance, Entropy, Chaos

Resources

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General

Portal

Systems Resources Page (Cosma, You are here!)
Systematics.org (J.G. Bennett Online Library)
Principia Cybernetica (Table of Contents)

Dictionary

system : a regularly interacting or interdependent group of items forming a unified whole — Webster See also Oxford, OneLook, Free Dictionary, Wiktionary, InfoPlease, Word Reference, Urban Dictionary

Dictionary of Cybernetics and Systems (Principia Cybernetica)

Thesaurus

Roget’s II (Thesaurus.com), Merriam-Webster Thesaurus, Visuwords

Encyclopedia

System is something that can be studied as a whole. Systems may consist of subsystems that are interesting in their own right. Or they may exist in an environment that consists of other similar systems. Systems are generally understood to have an internal state, inputs from an environment, and methods for manipulating the environment or themselves. Since cause and effect can flow in both directions of a system and environment, interesting systems often possess feedback, which is self-referential in the strongest case. — David Darling’s Internet Encyclopedia of Science

Britannica, Columbia (Infoplease), Wikipedia

Systematics is the study of systems and their application to the problem of understanding ourselves and the world, developed by John G. Bennett in the mid-twentieth century. — Wikipedia