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{{Infobox book
| name = EVOLVING SYSTEMS - Recognition and Description
| image = EVOLVING SYSTEMS - Recognition and Description 1647.jpg
| author = [[Mario Ludovico]]
| published = 2013
| publisher = [[EU - Art & Science Publications]]
| pages = 194
| isbn = 978 83 935247 6 1
}}

<div align="justify">     <div align="center"><b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; EVOLVING SYSTEMS&nbsp; -&nbsp; Recognition and Description</b><br />     </div><br /><br />&nbsp;&nbsp; The book's version presented here is an abridged English edition (104 pages instead of 194) of a theory that was originally published in year 1988 in Italian language only.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp; The book tackles the issue of identifying complex evolving systems, and describes ''a subjective representation'' of the relevant behaviors and evolution processes.<br />&nbsp; &nbsp; At variance with the majority of the theories and models of the kind, which address the collective behavior of the ''agents'' that form a system, this book focuses on the ''intentional interactions'' between the ''components ''(or ''agents'') of which the system's activity consists.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp; For the purpose, the theory introduces also a particular concept of ''syntropy ''as a measure of the degree of'' order'' internal to any system. ''Syntropy'' is a positive numerical quantity complementary to ''entropy'', the latter viewed as a measure of the ''disorder'' internal to the same system.<br /><br />&nbsp;&nbsp; The theory adopts a probabilistic approach to the subject, also with a view to stressing the cultural and linguistic constraints that condition the analysis.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp; The use of relatively simple mathematical instruments intends also to characterize the nature of ''calculation method'' inherent in the theory rather than the nature of ''model'' of the described "reality". Actually, this method or sections of it have been used on various occasions to cope with complex planning problems.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp; The theory develops on the basis of very few and almost obvious assumptions, of which the fundamental one is that the ''interactions'' are practically detectable and measurable, while the respective ''intentions'' (which motivate the interactions) are ''proved'' to be subsequently assessable as individual mathematical functions of the same interactions.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp; One purpose of this theory - which is far from purporting to constitute "scientific" stuff - is to call attention to the importance of dealing with complex systems by means of clear and rigorously self-consistent analyses, instead of relying on fashionable amazing (game-like) computational simulations, by which - nowadays - one can "prove" anything and the respective opposite.<br /><br />&nbsp;&nbsp; (A simple introduction/summary to the same theory, with a limited use of quite basic mathematics, can be found in&nbsp; <u>www.mario-ludovico.com/pdf/syntropy.pdf</u> )<br />   </div>

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