Complex Engineered Systems: Science Meets Technology (Understanding Complex Systems) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3540328319 ISBN 13: 9783540328315

Publisher: Springer, 2006

Synopsis

This book sheds light on the large-scale engineering systems that shape and guide our everyday lives. It does this by bringing together the latest research and practice defining the emerging field of Complex Engineered Systems. Understanding, designing, building and controlling such complex systems is going to be a central challenge for engineers in the coming decades. This book is a step toward addressing that challenge.

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From the Back Cover

Every time that we take money out of an ATM, surf the internet or simply turn on a light switch, we enjoy the benefits of complex engineered systems. Systems like power grids and global communication networks are so ubiquitous in our daily lives that we usually take them for granted, only noticing them when they break down. But how do such amazing technologies and infrastructures come to be what they are? How are these systems designed? How do distributed networks work? How are they made to respond rapidly in 'real time'? And as the demands that we place on these systems become increasingly complex, are traditional systems-engineering practices still relevant?

This volume examines the difficulties that arise in creating highly complex engineered systems and new approaches that are being adopted. Topics addressed range from the formal representation and classification of distributed networked systems to revolutionary engineering practices inspired by biological evolution. By bringing together the latest research in Complex Engineered Systems, this book sheds light on the current state and future course of this emerging field.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540328319
• ISBN 13: 9783540328315
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 386
• Editor: Braha Dan, Minai Ali A., Bar-Yam Yaneer