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Engineering Self-Organising Systems (ESOA 2004)

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We describe an analytic approach, multiscale analysis, that can demonstrate the fundamental limitations of decomposition based engineering for the development of highly complex systems. The planning based process is limited by the interdependence of components and communication between design teams. Thus, the construction of many highly complex systems should be pursued by strategies modeled after biological evolution, or market economies, where extensive planning is forsaken and multiple parallel design efforts compete for adoption through testing in actual use.

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  1. New England Complex Systems Institute, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA

    Yaneer Bar-Yam

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  1. NewVectors, 3520 Green Court, Suite 250, MI 48105, Ann Arbor, USA

    Sven A. Brueckner

  2. School of Computer Science and Information Systems, Birkbeck College London,  

    Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo

  3. Department of Computer and Communication Engineering, University of Thessaly, 37 Glavani, 28th October Str., Deligiorgi Building, 4th floor, room D3/4, 382 21, Volos, Greece

    Anthony Karageorgos

  4. Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Computer Science Dept., Harvard University, 235 Maxwell Dworkin, 33 Oxford Street, MA 02138, Cambridge, USA

    Radhika Nagpal

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Bar-Yam, Y. (2005). About Engineering Complex Systems: Multiscale Analysis and Evolutionary Engineering. In: Brueckner, S.A., Di Marzo Serugendo, G., Karageorgos, A., Nagpal, R. (eds) Engineering Self-Organising Systems. ESOA 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3464. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11494676_2

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