Complex Engineered Systems: Science Meets Technology

Dan Braha (Curatore)

Ali A. Minai (Curatore)

Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG, 2010

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.

• Curatore: Dan Braha, Ali A. Minai
• Editore: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
• Collana: Understanding Complex Systems
• Anno: 2010
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 386 p.
• Dimensioni: 235 x 155 mm
• EAN: 9783642069376

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