Synergetics (Topical Term)

Work cat.: Sinergetika na rubezhe XX-XXI vv., 2006.

McGraw-Hill dict. sci. tech. via AccessScience, Jan. 18, 2008 (synergetics: the study of complex systems that involve the cooperative, nonlinear behavior of numerous subsystems and exhibit ordered structures far from thermodynamic equilibrium)

International Workshop on Synergetics (1977 : Schloss Elmau). Synergetics, 1977: p. v (Synergetics is a rather new field of interdisciplinary research which studies the self-organized behavior of systems leading to the formation of structures and functionings)

Mikhailov, A.S. Foundations of synergetics, 1994: p. 1 (Synergetics, as a separate interdisciplinary research direction, was introduced only about two decades ago by H. Haken who had noticed profound similarities between the fundamental mathematical models which are used to describe the cooperative behavior of active systems in physics, chemistry, biology, and social sciences)