Complex Engineered Systems

Science Meets Technology

By: Dan Braha (Editor), Ali A. Minai (Editor), Yaneer Bar-Yam (Editor)

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Hardcover | 22 June 2006

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Recent advances in science and technology have led to a rapid increase
in 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 result
of 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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Complex engineered systems : a new paradigm	p. 1
Engineering complex systems : multiscale analysis and evolutionary engineering	p. 22
The structure and dynamics of complex product design	p. 40
On the nature of design	p. 72
Creation of desirable complexity : strategies for designing self-organized systems	p. 101
Understanding the complexity of design	p. 122
Spiraling out of control : problem-solving dynamics in complex distributed engineering projects	p. 141
The dynamics of collaborative design : insights from complex systems and negotiation research	p. 158
Modularity in the design of complex engineering systems	p. 175
Engineering complex systems	p. 206
Negotiation algorithms for collaborative design settings	p. 246
Information theory - the bridge connecting bounded rational game theory and statistical physics	p. 262
Engineering amorphous systems, using global-to-local compilation	p. 291
A machine learning method for improving task allocation in distributed multi-robot transportation	p. 307
Towards pro-active embodied agents : on the importance of neural mechanisms suitable to process time information	p. 338
Autonomous discovery and functional response to topology change in self-reconfigurable robots	p. 364
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