On interpreting scale (or view) and emergence in complex systems engineering

Proceedings of the 1st Annual 2007 IEEE Systems Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 115-121

  White, Brian E ^a  

^a MITRE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERIZATION; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; USER INTERFACES;

COLLABORATIVE APPROACH; CONCEPTUALIZING; INTERPRETATION;

SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

EID: 34748884373     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SYSTEMS.2007.374660     Document Type: Conference Paper

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