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Complex Engineered Systems: Science Meets Technology

By Yaneer Bar-yam , Dan Braha , Ali A. Minai

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
2006
ISBN
9783540328315, 3-540-32831-9
Open Library ID
OL9056364M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7539151 bytes)
Series
Understanding Complex Systems
Edition
1
Pages
395\395
Library
mexmat
Time added
2009-07-20 03:45:11

Description

Recent advances in science and technology have led to a rapid increasein the complexity of most engineered systems. In many notable cases,this change has been a qualitative one rather than merely one of magnitude.A new class of Complex Engineered Systems (CES) has emerged as a resultof technologies such as the Internet, GPS, wireless networking, micro-robotics, MEMS, fiber-optics and nanotechnology. These complex engineered systems are composed of many heterogeneous subsystems and are characterized by observable complex behaviors that emerge as a result of nonlinear spatio-temporal interactions among the subsystems at several levels of organization and abstraction. Examples of such systems include the World-Wide Web, air and ground traffic networks, distributed manufacturing environments, and globally distributed supply networks, as well as new paradigms such as self-organizing sensor networks, self-configuring robots, swarms of autonomous aircraft, smart materials and structures, and self-organizing computers. Understanding, designing, building and controlling such complex systems is going to be a central challenge for engineers in the coming decades.

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