Complex engineered systems: A new paradigm

Understanding Complex Systems

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 1-21

  Minai, Ali A ^a   Braha, Dan ^b,c   Bar Yam, Yaneer ^c  

^a University of Cincinnati   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH   (United States)

^c NEW ENGLAND COMPLEX SYSTEMS INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349423634     PISSN: 18600832     EISSN: 18600840     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-32834-3_1     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Albert, R. and A-L. Barabasi (2002) "Statistical mechanics of complex networks", Review of Modern Physics 74, pp. 47-97.
2. Bak, P. (1996) How Nature Works: The Science of Self-Organized Criticality, Springer-Verlag Telos.
3. Bar-Yam, Y. (1997) Dynamics of Complex Systems, Perseus Press.
4. Bar-Yam, Y. (2002a) General features of complex Systems, Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), EOLSS Publishers.
5. Bar-Yam, Y. (2002b) Enlightened Evolutionary Engineering/ Implementation of Innovation in FORCEnet, Report to Chief of Naval Operations Strategic Studies Group (May 1, 2002) http://www.necsi.org/ projects/yaneer/SSG_NECSI_2_E3_2.pdf
6. Bar-Yam, Y. (2003a) Unifying principles in complex systems, in Converging Technology (NBIC) for Improving Human Performance, M. C. Roco and W. S. Bainbridge eds, Kluwer.
7. Bar-Yam, Y. (2003b) When systems engineering fails - toward complex systems engineering, Proceedings of the International Conference on Systems, Man & Cybernetics, 2003, Vol. 2, 2021- 2028, Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press.
8. Bar-Yam Y. and Kuras M, (2004) Complex systems and evolutionary engineering, AOC Concept Paper, http://www.necsi.org/projects/yaneer/ AOCs_as_complex_systems.pdf
9. Bar-Yam, Y. (2005) Making Things Work, NECSI Knowledge Press.
10. Barabasi, A.-L. and E. Bonabeau (2003) "Scale-free networks" Scientific American 288, pp. 60-69.
11. Barabasi, A.-L. (2002) Linked: The New Science of Networks, Perseus Books.
12. Bonabeau, E., M. Dorigo and G. Theraulaz (1999) Swarm intelligence: From natural to artificial systems, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
13. Bornholdt, S. and H. G. Schuster (Eds.) (2002) Handbook of graphs and networks: From the genome to the Internet, Berlin: Wiley-VCH.
14. Braha, D. and Y. Bar-Yam (2006) "The Statistical Mechanics of Complex Product Development: Empirical and Analytical Results," Management Science (forthcoming).
15. Braha, D. and Y. Bar-Yam (2004) "The Topology of Large-Scale Engineering Problem-Solving Networks," Physical Review E. 69, 016113.
16. Braha, D. and O. Maimon (1998a) A Mathematical Theory of Design: Foundations, Algorithms and Applications, Kluwer, Boston.
17. Braha, D. and O. Maimon (1998b) "The Measurement of a Design Structural and Functional Complexity" IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetic. Part A. 28 (4), pp.527-535.
18. Carlson, J.M and J.C. Doyle (2000) "Highly optimized tolerance: robustness and design in complex systems", Physical Review Letters 84, pp. 2529-2532.
19. Carlson, J. M. and J.C. Doyle (2002) "Complexity and robustness", Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA 44 (suppl. 1), pp. 2539-2545.
20. Dawkins, R. (1986) The blind watchmaker: Why the evidence of evolution reveals a universe without design, London, UK: W.W. Norton and Co.
21. Dorigo, M., G. Di Caro and L.M. Gambardella (1999) "Ant algorithms for discrete optimization", Artificial Life 5, pp. 137-172.
22. Dorogovtsev, S.N. and J.F.F. Mendes (2003) Evolution of networks: From biological nets to the Internet and WWW, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
23. Klein, M., H. Sayama, P. Faratin, and Y. Bar-Yam. (2002) A Complex Systems Perspective on Computer-Supported Collaborative Design Technology. Communications of the ACM, 45, No. 11, pp. 27-31.
24. Kube, C.R. and H. Zhang (1992) "Collective robotic intelligence", Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, pp. 460-468.
25. Li, L., D. Alderson, R. Tanaka, J.C. Doyle and W. Willinger (2004) "Towards a theory of scale-free fraphs: Definition, properties and implications (extended version)", arXiv:cOnd-mat/0501169v1.
26. Mataric, M.J. (2001) "Learning in behavior-based multi-robot systems: Policies, models, and other agents", Cognitive Systems Research (special issue on multidisciplinary studies of multi-agent learning) 2, pp. 81-93.
27. Maimon, O. and D. Braha (1996) "On the Complexity of the Design Synthesis Problem," IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetic. Part A. 26 (1), pp.142-150.
28. Nagpal, R. (2001) Programmable Self-Assembly: Constructing Global Shape using Biologically-inspired Local Interactions and Origami Mathematics, PhD thesis, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT.
29. Sole, R.V., R. Ferrer, J. M. Montoya, and S. Valverde. (2002) "Selection, tinkering, and emergence in complex networks," Complexity 8, pp. 20-33.
30. Stauffer, D. and A. Aharony (1994) Introduction to Percolation Theory, London: Taylor & Francis.
31. Tanaka, R. and Doyle, J.C. (2004) "Scale-rich metabolic networks: background and introduction", arXiv:q-bio.MN/0410009 v1.
32. Weiss, G. (1999) Multiagent Systems: A Modern Approach to Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
33. Wooldridge, M. (2002) Introduction to MultiAgent Systems, John Wiley & Sons.
34. Yassine, A. N. Joglekar, D. Braha, S. Eppinger, and D. Whitney (2003) "Information Hiding in Product Development: The Design Churn Effect," Research in Engineering Design 14 (3), pp. 131-144.
35. Zhao, F. and L. Guibas (2004) Wireless sensor networks, San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann.
36. Braha, D. and Y. Reich (2003) "Topological Structures for Modeling Complex Engineering Design Processes," Research in Engineering Design 14 (4), pp. 185-199.
37. Edelman, G.M. and J.A. Gally, (2001) "Degeneracy and complexity in biology systems," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 98, pp. 13763-13768.