Managing and Engineering in Complex Situations [electronic resource] / edited by Samuel F. Kovacic, Andres Sousa-Poza.
Contributor(s): Kovacic, Samuel F [editor.] | Sousa-Poza, Andres [editor.] | SpringerLink (Online service).
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BookSeries: Topics in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 21Publisher: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013Description: VI, 267 p. 57 illus., 45 illus. in color. online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9789400755154.Subject(s): Engineering | Business | Management science | Complexity, Computational | Social sciences | Engineering | Complexity | Social Sciences, general | Business and Management, generalAdditional physical formats: Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification: 620 Online resources: Click here to access online
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Springer eBooksSummary: With so many terms available to define the same thing, it would seem nearly irresponsible to introduce yet another term (complex situation) to describe a phenomenological state of such as a system. However, a complex situation infers both a broader meaning and imposes a different perspective. Complex in this context is dependent on understanding and reality rather than observer and knowledge. Situation imposes a gestalt that cannot be characterized within a singular perspective that relegates paradox to a superior/subordinate hierarchy. This also infers that complex situation has no monotonic definition or each definition is by default incomplete. Therefore the perennial derivations for systems such as complex systems, system of systems, federation of systems is no longer a sufficient descriptor for complex situation. Ergo system and its genealogy lack the constitution to define complex situations. The books' intent is to explore this pathology through a series of papers written by authors that work in complex situations and have dealt with the limitations of the status quo: systems.
With so many terms available to define the same thing, it would seem nearly irresponsible to introduce yet another term (complex situation) to describe a phenomenological state of such as a system. However, a complex situation infers both a broader meaning and imposes a different perspective. Complex in this context is dependent on understanding and reality rather than observer and knowledge. Situation imposes a gestalt that cannot be characterized within a singular perspective that relegates paradox to a superior/subordinate hierarchy. This also infers that complex situation has no monotonic definition or each definition is by default incomplete. Therefore the perennial derivations for systems such as complex systems, system of systems, federation of systems is no longer a sufficient descriptor for complex situation. Ergo system and its genealogy lack the constitution to define complex situations. The books' intent is to explore this pathology through a series of papers written by authors that work in complex situations and have dealt with the limitations of the status quo: systems.
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