CINDYNICS
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Vol. (num.) | 2(1) |
| ID | ◀ 438 ▶ |
| Object type | Discipline oriented |
A discipline that studies the laws of danger (from the greek “kindunos”: danger)
Most of the dangerous situations do show the following characteristics:
- they correspond to transformations in complex systems;
- these transformations are frequently quite sudden;
- they are very generally unexpected by witnesses, protagonists or victims;
- they cannot be forecasted by simple linear extrapolations.
The laws of cindynics should be investigated in close connection with systemic and cybernetic concepts, most specially those about:
- non-linear growth and positive feedbacks
- discontinuities (or “catastrophes”)
- dissipative structuration
- instability thresholds
- limits to forecasting.
See also
Disasters, Failure tree, Lusser theorem, Petri net, Reliability