Complex Engineered Systems (eBook)

Science Meets Technology

D. Braha, Al.A. Minai, Y. Bar-Yam (Autoren)

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2006 | 1. Auflage
X, 396 Seiten
Springer-Verlag
978-3-540-32834-6 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Inhalt

Preface 8
Contents 10
Complex Engineered Systems: A New Paradigm 12
Engineering Complex Systems: Multiscale Analysis and Evolutionary Engineering 33
The Structure and Dynamics of Complex Product Design 51
On the Nature of Design 83
Creation of desirable complexity: strategies for designing self-organized systems 112
Understanding the Complexity of Design 133
Spiraling out of Control: Problem-Solving Dynamics in Complex Distributed Engineering Projects 152
The Dynamics of Collaborative Design: Insights From Complex Systems and Negotiation Research 169
Modularity in the Design of Complex Engineering Systems 186
Engineering Complex Systems 217
Negotiation algorithms for collaborative design settings 257
Information Theory — The Bridge Connecting Bounded Rational Game Theory and Statistical Physics 273
Engineering Amorphous Systems, Using Global-to-Local Compilation 302
A Machine Learning Method for Improving Task Allocation in Distributed Multi-Robot Transportation 318
Towards Pro-active Embodied Agents: On the Importance of Neural Mechanisms Suitable to Process Time Information 349
Autonomous Discovery and Functional Response to Topology Change in Self- Reconfigurable Robots 375

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.1.2006
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Künstliche Intelligenz / Robotik
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Angewandte Mathematik
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Physiotherapie / Ergotherapie ► Orthopädie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Theoretische Physik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Thermodynamik
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Maschinenbau
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Medizintechnik
• Schlagworte: Bridge • Communication Networks • complex engineered systems • Complexity • Complex System • Complex Systems • Game Theory • Information • Information Theory • Internet • microelectromechanical system (MEMS) • nanotechnology • Online • Robotics • self-organized systems • Sensor
• ISBN-10: 3-540-32834-3 / 3540328343
• ISBN-13: 978-3-540-32834-6 / 9783540328346