Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Complex Systems New Findings and Approaches /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kahlen, Franz-Josef (Editor), Flumerfelt, Shannon (Editor), Alves, Anabela (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Business.; Operations research.; Decision making.; System theory.; Complexity, Computational.; Industrial engineering.; Production engineering.; Business and Management.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.; Complex Systems.; Complexity.; Industrial and Production Engineering.

This book presents an internationally comprehensive perspective into the field of complex systems. It explores the challenges of and approaches to complexity from a broad range of disciplines, including big data, health care, medicine, mathematics, mechanical and systems engineering, air traffic con...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Mathematical Characterization of System-of-Systems Attributes
• So It's Complex, Why Do I Care?
• Designer Systems of Systems – A Rational Integrated Approach of System Engineering to Tailored Aerodynamics, Aero-elasticity, Stability, Control, Geometry, Materials, Structures, Propulsion, Performance, Sizing, Weight, Cost
• The Digital Twin
• Managing Systems Complexity Through Congruence
• Additive Manufacturing: A Trans-disciplinary Experience
• Expanding the Sociotechnical Systems Perspective through the Trans-Disciplinary Lens of Complexity Therory
• On Complementarity and the Need for a Transdisciplinary Perspective in Addressing Infectious Diseases
• On the Perception of Complexity and its Implications
• Cost Effects of Variety Induced Complexity – A Study on Industrial Cases in German Industry
• Problem Solving and Increase of Ideality of Complex Systems. .