Modeling and Managing Interdependent Complex Systems of Systems

A comprehensive guide to the theory, methodology, and development for modeling systems of systems Modeling and Managing Interdependent Complex Systems of Systems examines the complexity of, and the risk to, emergent interconnected and interdependent complex systems of systems in the natural and the constructed environment, and in its critical infrastructures. For systems modelers, this book focuses on what constitutes complexity and how to understand, model and manage it.Previous modeling methods for complex systems of systems were aimed at developing theory and methodologies for uncoupling the interdependencies and interconnections that characterize them. In this book, the author extends the above by utilizing public- and private- sector case studies; identifies, explores, and exploits the core of interdependencies; and seeks to understand their essence via the states of the system, and their dominant contributions to the complexity of systems of systems. The book proposes a reevaluation of fundamental and practical systems engineering and risk analysis concepts on complex systems of systems developed over the past 40 years. This important resource: Updates and streamlines systems engineering theory, methodology, and practice as applied to complex systems of systems Introduces modeling methodology inspired by philosophical and conceptual thinking from the arts and sciences Models the complexity of emergent interdependent and interconnected complex systems of systems by analyzing their shared states, decisions, resources, and decisionmakers Written for systems engineers, industrial engineers, managers, planners, academics and other professionals in engineering systems and the environment,this text is the resource for understanding the fundamental principles of modeling and managing complex systems of systems, and the risk thereto.

A comprehensive guide to the theory, methodology, and development for modeling systems of systemsModeling and Managing Interdependent Complex Systems of Systems examines the complexity of, and the risk to, emergent interconnected and interdependent complex systems of systems in the natural and the constructed environment, and in its critical infrastructures. For systems modelers, this book focuses on what constitutes complexity and how to understand, model and manage it.Previous modeling methods for complex systems of systems were aimed at developing theory and methodologies for uncoupling the interdependencies and interconnections that characterize them. In this book, the author extends the above by utilizing public- and private- sector case studies; identifies, explores, and exploits the core of interdependencies; and seeks to understand their essence via the states of the system, and their dominant contributions to the complexity of systems of systems.The book proposes a reevaluation of fundamental and practical systems engineering and risk analysis concepts on complex systems of systems developed over the past 40 years. This important resource:* Updates and streamlines systems engineering theory, methodology, and practice as applied to complex systems of systems* Introduces modeling methodology inspired by philosophical and conceptual thinking from the arts and sciences* Models the complexity of emergent interdependent and interconnected complex systems of systems by analyzing their shared states, decisions, resources, and decisionmakersWritten for systems engineers, industrial engineers, managers, planners, academics and other professionals in engineering systems and the environment,this text is the resource for understanding the fundamental principles of modeling and managing complex systems of systems, and the risk thereto.

Foreword viiAcknowledgments xv1 Modeling and Managing Interdependent Complex Systems of Systems:Fundamentals, Theory and Methodology 12 Modeling, Decomposition, and Multilevel Coordination of Complex Systems of Systems 513 Hierarchical Holographic Modeling and Multilevel Coordination of Complex Systems of Systems 1114 Modeling Complex Systems of Systems with Phantom System Models 1415 Complex Systems of Systems: Multiple Goals and Objectives 1836 Hierarchical Coordinated Bayesian Modeling of Complex Systems of Systems 2297 Hierarchical Multiobjective Modeling and Decision Making for Complex Systems of Systems 2798 Modeling Economic Interdependencies among Complex Systems of Systems 3639 Guiding Principles for Modeling and Managing Complex Systems of Systems 41110 Modeling Cyber-Physical Complex Systems of Systems: Four Case Studies 44711 Global Supply Chain as Complex Systems of Systems 52712 Understanding and Managing the Organizational Dimension of Complex Systems of Systems 55913 Software Engineering: The Driver of Cyber-Physical Complex Systems of Systems 60714 Infrastructure Preparedness for Communities as Complex Systems of Systems 64715 Modeling Safety of Transportation Complex Systems of Systems via Fault Trees 695Appendix 739Author Index 773Subject Index 779