"There are quite a number of novel developments intended to meet the needs of a general theory of systems. We may enum…"

"# Cybernetics, based upon the principle of feedback or circular causal trains providing mechanisms for goal-seeking a…"

"# Information theory, introducing the concept of information as a quantity measurable by an expression isomorphic to …"

"# Game theory, analyzing in a novel mathematical framework, rational competition between two or more antagonists for …"

"# , similarly analyzing rational choices, within human organizations, based upon examination of a given situation and…"

"# or relational mathematics, including non-metrical fields such as network and graph theory."

"# Factor analysis, i.e., isolation by way of mathematical analysis, of factors in multivariable phenomena in psycholo…"

"# General system theory in the narrower sense (G.S.T.), trying to derive from a general definition of “system” as com…"

"Game theory is the study of individual decision-making in the face of competing boundedly rational actors."

""Interactive Decision Theory" would perhaps be a more descriptive name for the discipline usually called Game Theory"