The Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Sciences
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Uri Wilensky and Michael J. Jacobson A complex system is a system composed of many elements that interact with each other andtheir environment. For example, an economy is composed of many individual buyers and sellers; an ecological system of many animals and plants; a weather system of fronts, precipitation, and air; and so on. A key feature of complex systems is that it is often difficult to predict or make sense of the behavior of the systems as a whole, even when all the ...