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dc.creator Magee, Christopher
dc.creator de Weck, Olivier
dc.date 2004-10-18T16:12:17Z
dc.date 2004-10-18T16:12:17Z
dc.date 2004-07-24
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-09T02:46:45Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-09T02:46:45Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-09
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6753
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/1721
dc.description The use of terms such as “Engineering Systems”, “System of systems” and others have been coming into greater use over the past decade to denote systems of importance but with implied higher complexity than for the term systems alone. This paper searches for a useful taxonomy or classification scheme for complex Systems. There are two aspects to this problem: 1) distinguishing between Engineering Systems (the term we use) and other Systems, and 2) differentiating among Engineering Systems. Engineering Systems are found to be differentiated from other complex systems by being human-designed and having both significant human complexity as well as significant technical complexity. As far as differentiating among various engineering systems, it is suggested that functional type is the most useful attribute for classification differentiation. Information, energy, value and mass acted upon by various processes are the foundation concepts underlying the technical types.
dc.description Engineering Systems Division and Mechanical Engineering, Center for Innovation in Product Development
dc.format 428544 bytes
dc.format application/msword
dc.language en_US
dc.publisher International Council On Systems Engineering (INCOSE)
dc.subject Engineering Systems
dc.subject System of systems
dc.subject classification
dc.subject complex Systems
dc.subject System
dc.title Complex System Classification
dc.type Working Paper


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