Patterns of evolution were developed by Genrich Altshuller as a set of patterns common to systems as they are developed and as they acquire new features. They are used in systems development and apply to all systems and are used for education, software, economics, business.
- Evolution of useful functions
- Elimination of harmful functions
- Evolution of applications
- Integration/Structuralisation
- Increasing dynamicity and controllability
- Evolution of matching/mismatching
- Evolution of resource application
- Evolution of contradictions
- Evolution of processes in system
- Evolution of fields
- Evolution toward the multilevel
Famous quotes containing the words patterns of, patterns and/or evolution:
“Teasing is universal. Anthropologists have found the same fundamental patterns of teasing among New Zealand aborigine children and inner-city kids on the playgrounds of Philadelphia.”
—Lawrence Kutner (20th century)
“For the man who should loose me is dead,
Fighting with the Duke in Flanders,
In a pattern called a war.
Christ! What are patterns for?”
—Amy Lowell (1874–1925)
“As a natural process, of the same character as the development of a tree from its seed, or of a fowl from its egg, evolution excludes creation and all other kinds of supernatural intervention.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)