Engineering complex systems: Multiscale analysis and evolutionary engineering

Understanding Complex Systems

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 22-39

  Bar Yam, Yaneer ^a  

^a NEW ENGLAND COMPLEX SYSTEMS INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349422330     PISSN: 18600832     EISSN: 18600840     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-32834-3_2     Document Type: Review

References (31)

1. Y. Bar-Yam, Making Things Work; Solving complex problems in a complex world, (NECSI Knowledge Press, 2004).
2. D. Braha, A. Minai, and Y. Bar-Yam, eds. Engineered Complex Systems, NECSI Knowledge Press, 2004.
3. Y. Bar-Yam, Enlightened Evolutionary Engineering/Implementation of Innovation in FORCEnet, Report to Chief of Naval Operations Strategic Studies Group, 2002 (Brief 2000).
4. Y. Bar-Yam, When Systems Engineering Fails - Toward Complex Systems Engineering, International Conference on Systems, Man & Cybernetics, 2003, Vol. 2, 2021- 2028, IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, 2003.
5. D. Braha and O. Maimon, A Mathematical Theory of Design: Foundations, Algorithms and Applications, Kluwer, Boston, 1998.
6. Y. Bar-Yam, Dynamics of Complex Systems, (Perseus, Reading, MA, 1997).
7. Y. Bar-Yam: General Features of Complex Systems, in Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), UNESCO, EOLSS Publishers, Oxford, UK, 2002
8. Y. Bar-Yam: Complexity rising: From human beings to human civilization, a complexity profile, in Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), UNESCO, EOLSS Publishers, Oxford, UK, 2002
9. Y. Bar-Yam, "Unifying Principles in Complex Systems" in Converging Technology (NBIC) for Improving Human Performance, M. C. Roco and W. S. Bainbridge, Dds., Kluwer, 2003.
10. Y. Bar-Yam, Multiscale Variety in Complex Systems, Complexity 9:4, pp. 37-45, 2004.
11. Y. Bar-Yam, A Mathematical Theory of Strong Emergence using Multiscale Variety, Complexity 9:6, pp. 15-24, 2004.
12. Y. Bar-Yam: Multiscale Complexity/Entropy, Advances in Complex Systems 7, pp. 47-63, 2004.
13. S. Gheorghiu-Svirschevski and Y. Bar-Yam, Multiscale analysis of information correlations in an infinite-range, ferromagnetic Ising system, Phys.Rev. E 70, 066115 (2004)
14. Standish Group International, The CHAOS Report, 1994.
15. G. S. Lynn, J. G. Morone and A. S. Paulson, "Marketing and discontinuous innovation: The probe-and-learn process," California Management Rev., Vol. 38, No. 3, pp. 8-36, 1996.
16. [R. W. Veryzer, "Discontinuous innovation and the new product development process," J. Product Innovation Management, Vol. 15, pp. 304-321, 1998
17. DoD Directive 5000.1, "The Defense Acquisition System," May 12, 2003.
18. See e.g. Agile Software Development, CrossTalk, Vol. 15, No. 10, Oct. 2002.
19. M. T. Pich, C. H. Loch and A. De Meyer, "On Uncertainty, Ambiguity and Complexity in Project Management" Management Science 48, 1008-1023, 2002.
20. W. R. Ashby, An Introduction to Cybernetics, Chapman and Hall, London, 1957.
21. J. Galbraith, Designing Complex Organizations, (Addison-Wesley, 1973)
22. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Computer Outages at the Federal Aviation Administration's Air Traffic Control Center in Aurora, Illinois [Field Hearing in Aurora, Illinois] hpw104-32.000 HEARING DATE: 09/26/1995.
23. Standish Group International, The CHAOS Report, 1994.
24. U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infra-structure, FAA Criticized For Continued Delays In Modernization Of Air Traffic Control System, Mar. 14, 2001.
25. D. K. Sobek, A. C. Ward and J. K. Liker, "Toyota's principles of set-based concurrent engineering," Sloan Management Rev., Vol. 40, pp. 67-83, 1999.
26. E. Rauch, H. Sayama and Y. Bar-Yam, "The role of time scale in fitness,"Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 228101-4 2002.
27. J. K. Werfel and Y. Bar-Yam, The evolution of reproductive restraint through social communication, PNAS 101, 11019-11024 (2004).
28. Y. Bar-Yam: Formalizing the gene centered view of evolution, Advances in Complex Systems 2, 277-281 (1999).
29. L. J. Fogel, A. J. Owens and M. J. Walsh, Artificial Intelligence through Simulated Evolution, Wiley, New York, 1966.
30. J. H. Holland, Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems, 2d ed. MIT Press, Cambridge, 1992.
31. Y. Bar-Yam, About Engineering Complex Systems: Multiscale Analysis and Evolutionary Engineering, in Engineering Self Organising Systems: Methodologies and Applications, S. Brueckner, G. Di Marzo Serugendo, A. Karageorgos, R. Nagpal (Eds.), ESOA 2004, LNCS 3464, pp. 16-31, 2005.