An adaptive system is a system that is able to adapt its behavior according to changes in its environment or in parts of the system itself. A human being, for instance, is certainly an adaptive system; so are organizations and families. Some man-made systems can be made adaptive as well; for instance, control systems utilize feedback loops in order to sense conditions in their environment and adapt accordingly. Robots incorporate many of these control systems. Neural Networks are a common type of algorithmic implementation of adaptive systems. System (from the Latin (systÄma), and this from the Greek (sustÄma)) is an assemblage of entity/objects, real or abstract, comprising a whole with each and every component/element interacting or related to another one. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Control theory. ... In cybernetics and control theory, feedback is a process whereby some proportion or in general, function, of the output signal of a system is passed (fed back) to the input. ... A robot is an electro-mechanical device that can perform autonomous or preprogrammed tasks. ... An artificial neural network (ANN), also called a simulated neural network (SNN) or commonly just neural network (NN) is an interconnected group of artificial neurons that uses a mathematical or computational model for information processing based on a connectionist approach to computation. ...
Diffusion of innovations theory can help to explain the uptake of new ideas, practices and products by individuals and social groups -- human adaptive systems. The study of the diffusion of innovation is the study of how, why, and at what rate new ideas spread through cultures. ...
The introduction of this article does not provide enough context for readers unfamiliar with the subject. ... An artificial neural network (ANN), also called a simulated neural network (SNN) or commonly just neural network (NN) is an interconnected group of artificial neurons that uses a mathematical or computational model for information processing based on a connectionist approach to computation. ...
An adaptivesystem is a physical system that is capable of self-adapting in response to changing environments.
An adaptivesystem, on the other hand, will be equipped to self-modify into different system-states in order to navigate, function and succeed within different environments.
Adaptivesystems are designed to engage and respond to their environments.