About engineering complex systems: multiscale analysis and evolutionary engineering

  • Authors:
  • Yaneer Bar-Yam

  • Affiliations:
  • New England Complex Systems Institute, Cambridge, MA

  • Venue:
  • Engineering Self-Organising Systems
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

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.