Complex engineered, organizational and natural systems: Issues underlying the complexity of systems and fundamental research needed to address these issues

Systems Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 260-271

  Rouse, William B ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Architectures; Complex systems; Complexity; Fundamental limits; Systems of systems

Indexed keywords

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

FUNDAMENTAL LIMITS; SYSTEMS OF SYSTEMS;

LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS;

EID: 34548452551     PISSN: 10981241     EISSN: 15206858     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sys.20076     Document Type: Article

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