Design issues for a bottom-up complexity metric applied to hierarchical systems

10th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration and Operations Conference 2010, ATIO 2010

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Khire, Ritesh ^a   Becz, Sandor ^b   Reeve, Hayden M ^a   Zeidner, Lawrence E ^a  

^a UNITED TECHNOLOGIES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Lenze SE ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING SYSTEM; COMPLEXITY METRICS; HIERARCHICAL MODULES; LARGE COMPLEX SYSTEMS; REDUCING SYSTEMS; SYSTEM ARCHITECTING; SYSTEM COMPLEXITY; SYSTEM MODULARITY;

AVIATION; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY;

HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 84878471839     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2010-9224     Document Type: Conference Paper

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