Systems Engineering : A 21st Century Systems Methodology
Derek K. Hitchins
Bok Engelsk 2008 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Hoboken : : Wiley, , 2008.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (532 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Systems Engineering; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Part I Systems: Advances in Systems Science and Thinking; 1 Systems Philosophy; Emerging Systems Movement; The Nature of Systems; Causality and Teleology; Emergence; Life and the Second Law; Entropy and Work in Human Organizations; Entropy Cycling; General Systems Theory and Open Systems; Boulding's Classification of Systems; Parallels and Isomorphisms; The Concept of the Open System; Understanding Open System Behavior; Gestalt and Holism; Indivisibility; Interaction dynamics; Stability and Steady-state; The Systems Approach; Systems Thinking. - 5 System Models. - Conservation Laws and Transport PhenomenaQueuing Phenomena; Chaotic Phenomena; Lepidoptera Lorenzii?; Generating chaos; Self-similarity; Fractals; Period doubling; Information: Conserved, or Non-conserved?; Systems Science as Natural Science and Social Science; Behavior; Interpretation and categorization; Tacit knowledge; World models and world views; Interpretation; Belief system; Instinct and archetype; Social and Cultural Anthropology; Social Capital; Social Genotype; Managing Complexity; Aggregation of emergent properties; Anti-chaos; Systems Life Cycles and Entropic Cycling. - Functionalism and the Organismic AnalogyThe organismic analogy; The machine metaphor; Mechanistic Control Concepts; Organismic Control Concepts; Basic Percepts, Concepts and Precepts; Emergence and hierarchy; Systems as comprised of interacting parts, themselves systems; Variety in whole systems; Potential synthesis of open systems with desired emergent properties: systems engineering; Problem space and solution space; Evolving adaptive systems; Self-organized criticality; Weak chaos; System precepts; Assignment; 2 Advances in Systems Science; System Theory, System Science. - Principle of system reactionsPrinciple of system cohesion; Principle of adaptation; Principle of connected variety; Principle of limited variety; Principle of preferred patterns; Principle of cyclic progression (entropic cycling); System life cycles: the Unified Systems Hypothesis; System longevity: system decay; Summary; Assignment; 3 Advances in Systems Thinking; Scope, Limits and Values; Rich pictures; Causality and causal loop models; Dynamic simulation of phenomena; Dynamic interactive systems simulation; Behavior modeling; Systems Thinking and the Scientific Method. - Representing and Modeling SystemsNonlinear Systems Thinking; Summary; Assignments; 4 Systems Engineering Philosophy; Why Systems Engineering is Important; Early Examples Set the Style; Battle of Britain; NASA's Apollo; Is it 'Systems'?; Is it Engineering?; Problem Solving, Resolving and Dissolving; Systems Engineering: Definitions and Descriptions; The Real Objectives of Systems Engineering; Strategies for Solving, Resolving or Dissolving the Problem; Self-organizing Systems; System of Systems; Bottom-up Integration; Completing the 'Whole' of Systems Engineering...; Summary; Assignments. - This book conceives, presents and exemplifies a contemporary, general systems methodology that is straightforward and accessible, providing guidance in practical application, as well as explaining concept and theory. The book is presented both as a text for students, with topic assignments, and as a reference for practitioners, through case studies. Utilizing recent research and developments in systems science, methods and tools, Hitchins has developed a unified systems methodology, employable when tackling virtually any problem, from the small technological, to the global socioeconomic.
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| ISBN | 9780470058565
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