scholarly journals Complex Dynamic Systems Theory for Cognitive Environment Approach

Author(s):  
Madeleine Rannveig

Population Fluctuations (PF), Patch Variation (PV), and Food Webs (FW) are just a few of the areas where the Complex Dynamic Systems Theory (CDST) has made a significant impact on our understanding of the environment. Measures have been used to capture the variation between simple, disordered and ordered frameworks with local interactions that can generate surprising actions on a massive scale. But research shows that conventional explanations of convolution fail to take into account some major characteristics of ecological systems, an ideology that will limit the contributions of CDST to the entire ecosystem. In this paper, we have presented literature review of these characteristics of Environmental Convolution (EC), e.g. diversification, environmental variability, memory and cross-scale interactions, which progress to classical CDST. Advancements in these segments will be essential before CDST can be applicable in the comprehension of more vibrant systems in the environment.

Author(s):  
Phil Hiver ◽  
Ali H. Al-Hoorie ◽  
Diane Larsen-Freeman

Abstract Complexity theory/dynamic systems theory has challenged conventional approaches to applied linguistics research by encouraging researchers to adopt a pragmatic transdisciplinary approach that is less paradigmatic and more problem-oriented in nature. Its proponents have argued that the starting point in research design should not be the quantitative–qualitative distinction, or even mixed methods, but the distinction between individual versus group-based designs (i.e., idiographic versus nomothetic). Taking insights from transdisciplinary complexity research in other human and social sciences, we propose an integrative transdisciplinary framework that unites these different perspectives (quantitative–qualitative, individual–group based) from the starting point of exploratory–falsificatory aims. We discuss the implications of this transdisciplinary approach to applied linguistics research and illustrate how such an integrated approach might be implemented in the field.


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