Transdisciplinary perspectives on complex systems : new findings and approaches

"This book presents an internationally comprehensive perspective into the field of complex systems. It explores the challenges of and approaches to complexity from a broad range of disciplines, including big data, health care, medicine, mathematics, mechanical and systems engineering, air traff...

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Other Authors Kahlen, Franz-Josef (Editor), Flumerfelt, Shannon (Editor), Alves, Anabela (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Switzerland : Springer International Publishing, [2017]
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9783319387567
9783319387543
Physical Description1 online resource (x, 327 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Mathematical characterization of system-of-systems attributes / W. Clifton Baldwin and Wilson N. Felder
  • So it's complex, why do I care? / Steven Holt, Paul Collopy, and Dianne DeTurris
  • Designer systems of systems : a rational integrated approach / Harry H. Hilton, Steven J. D'Urso, and Noe Wiener
  • Digital twin : mitigating unpredictable, undesirable emergent behavior in complex systems / Michael Grieves and John Vickers
  • Managing systems complexity through congruence / Shannon Flumerfelt, Anabela Alves, Javier Calvo-Amodio, Chris Hoyle, and Franz-Josef Kahlen
  • Additive manufacturing : a trans-disciplinary experience / Paul Witherell, Yan Lu, and Al Jones
  • Expanding sociotechnical systems theory through the trans-disciplinary lens of complexity theory / Lisa Troyer
  • On complementarity and the need for a transdisciplinary approach in addressing emerging global health issues / Patrick T. Hester, Muge Akpinar-Elci, James M. Shaeffer Sr., and Margaret B. Shaeffer
  • On the perception of complexity and its implications / J.E. Manuse and Bogdan Sniezek
  • Early phase estimation of variety induced complexity cost effects : a study on industrial cases in Germany / Sandra Eilmus, Thomas Gumpinger, Thomas Kipp, Olga Sankowski, and Dieter Krause
  • Problem solving and increase of ideality of complex systems / Helena V.G. Navas.