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Complex Engineered Systems: Science Meets Technology (Understanding Complex Systems) by Dan Braha; Ali A Minai; Yaneer Bar-Yam; SpringerLink (Online service) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Recent advances in science and technology have led to a rapid increase in the complexity of most engineered systems. In many notable cases, this change has been a qualitative one rather than merely one of magnitude. A new class of Complex Engineered Systems (CES) has emerged as a result of technologies such as the Internet, GPS, wireless networking, micro-robotics, MEMS, fiber-optics and nanotechnology. These complex engineered systems are composed of many heterogeneous subsystems and are characterized by observable complex behaviors that emerge as a result of nonlinear spatio-temporal interactions among the subsystems at several levels of organization and abstraction. Examples of such systems include the World-Wide Web, air and ground traffic networks, distributed manufacturing environments, and globally distributed supply networks, as well as new paradigms such as self-organizing sensor networks, self-configuring robots, swarms of autonomous aircraft, smart materials and structures, and self-organizing computers. Understanding, designing, building and controlling such complex systems is going to be a central challenge for engineers in the coming decades.

Who reads Complex Engineered Systems: Science Meets Technology (Understanding Complex Systems)?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Dan Braha; Ali A Minai; Yaneer Bar-Yam; SpringerLink (Online service)
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer
Published
2006
Language
EN
ISBN
9783642069376
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Science, Engineering, Mathematics

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