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Describing Engineered Systems

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This chapter is devoted to the description of engineered systems based on imperfect knowledge. A full description of the assessed system will be carried out both in terms of system and process approach using both topology- as well as flow-based methodology. The infrastructure description pays particular attention to its complexity and dependencies between elements of the structure, especially in the case of global supply networks. Instead, the process approach is based on the service engineering principles to describe the specificity of the delivery processes (supply, demand and distribution) as accurately as reasonable possible. A quantitative description of the system will contain both performance and operationality related measures.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Leonardo da Vinci.

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Bukowski, L. (2019). Describing Engineered Systems. In: Reliable, Secure and Resilient Logistics Networks. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00850-5_3

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