Complex Engineered Systems: Science Meets Technology

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Book Title: Complex Engineered Systems: Science Meets Technology (Understanding Complex Systems)
Author: D. Braha, Al.A. Minai, Y. Bar-Yam
Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (July 28, 2006)
Hardcover: 385 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3540328319
ISBN-13: 978-3540328315

Book Description
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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