Systems engineering (SE) is experiencing a significant expansion that
encompasses increasingly complex systems. However, a common body of
knowledge on how to apply complex systems engineering (CSE) has yet to
be developed. A combination of people and other autonomous agents,
crossing organization boundaries and continually changing, these
hybrid systems are less predictable while being more self-organizing
and adaptive than traditional systems. The growing pains of this
evolution and the ever-widening reach of SE technology require an
effective foundation for integrating traditional and complex
engineering methods, addressing machine and human interaction, as well
as scaling up and down, from nano scale to the macro system-of-systems
level. Model-oriented Systems Engineering Science: A Unifying
Framework for Traditional and Complex Systems addresses solutions to
that expansion and integration problem. This text takes advantage of
better-understood systems science (SS) to support the transition,
identifying and using commonalities between complex systems and other
sciences, such as biology, sociology, cognitive science,
organizational theory, and computational science. The author defines
Model-oriented Systems Engineering Science (MOSES), an organized
system that selects appropriate information from these disciplines and
unifies it into a coherent framework. The result is a seamless
approach to the class of systems across the extended scope of the new
SE—a foundation upon which to develop an enhanced and unified SE.
Modeling orientation (MO) provides a common perspective on the entire
SES/SE enterprise, including all supporting sciences, engineering for
the full range of traditional, complex, and hybrid systems, and their
management. This book extends existing modeling approaches into an MO
that views all science artifacts and engineering artifacts as models
of systems. It organizes them into a virtual structured repository
called the SE model space—effectively a container for the
accumulating body of SE and SES knowledge in the form of models and
patterns. By organizing and integrating all these elements into a
common framework, the author makes the material not only easily
accessible but also immediately applicable, and provides a
well-grounded basis for future growth and evolution of the SE
discipline.
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A Unifying Framework for Traditional and Complex Systems
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781040167427
Publisert
2024
Utgave
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Utgiver
Taylor & Francis
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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