Engineered Systems Articles
Technology Infrastructure Resilience
Resilience refers to the capacity of a system to effectively respond to, and adapt to, changes without significant degradation to its overall functioning and structure...
Technology Network Analysis
Technology network analysis is the study of systems of technology via the lens of network analysis. It uses models and analytical tools to study how connectivity shapes technologies; particularly...
Multi-Level Engineered Systems
Multi-level engineered systems are technologies that involve many different emergent levels to their overall structure....
Technology Path-Dependency
Path-dependence refers to how current events and choices are contingent on, and conditioned by, past events....
Self-Organizing Engineered Systems
Self-organizing engineered systems refers to the process through which engineered systems can self-organize to create global functional technologies....
Information & Control Systems
Information technology is an integral part of the whole theory and science of complex systems. It is essentially the only way through which we can access data,...
Engineering Systems Dynamics
Engineering System dynamics is a modeling method for the analysis of complex engineered systems that are characterized by feedback loops and time delays...
Complex Engineered Systems
Complex engineered systems are large networks of technologies composed of many diverse subsystems, densely interacting in a nonlinear fashion to create a multi-tiered network system that evolves...
Technology Systems
Technology Systems Technology is often defined as the use of scientific knowledge to solve problems.1 In such a way technology refers to the development of systematic methods for solving some...
Technology Convergence
Technology convergence is the integration of a number of disparate technologies or functions into a single integrated system....
Distributed Technologies
Distributed technologies are systems of technology composed of many small parts without centralized coordination or control. ...
SocioTechnical Systems
Socio-technical systems is an approach to the study and design of complex organizations and technologies that recognizes the interaction between people and technology as a defining factor in the...