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About this book
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.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Complex Engineered Systems
Book Subtitle: Science Meets Technology
Editors: Dan Braha, Ali A. Minai, Yaneer Bar-Yam
Series Title: Understanding Complex Systems
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-32834-3
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-32831-5Published: 22 June 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-06937-6Published: 19 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-32834-6Published: 24 June 2007
Series ISSN: 1860-0832
Series E-ISSN: 1860-0840
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 386
Topics: Complex Systems, Industrial and Production Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering, Applications of Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence