Emergent Behavior in Complex Systems Engineering - A Modeling and Simulation Approach

Author:   S Mittal ,  Saikou Diallo ,  Andreas Tolk ,  William B. Rouse
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
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Pages:   416
Publication Date:   29 June 2018
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Author:   S Mittal ,  Saikou Diallo ,  Andreas Tolk ,  William B. Rouse
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.816kg
ISBN:  

9781119378860


ISBN 10:   1119378869
Pages:   416
Publication Date:   29 June 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
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FOREWORD x PREFACE xiii ABOUT THE EDITORS xvi LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS xviii SECTION I EMERGENT BEHAVIOR IN COMPLEX SYSTEMS 1 1 Metaphysical and Scientific Accounts of Emergence: Varieties of Fundamentality and Theoretical Completeness 3 John Symons 2 Emergence: What does it mean and How is it Relevant to Computer Engineering? 21 Wesley J. Wildman and F. LeRon Shults 3 System Theoretic Foundations for Emergent Behavior Modeling: The Case of Emergence of Human Language in a Resource-Constrained Complex Intelligent Dynamical System 35 Bernard P. Zeigler and Saurabh Mittal 4 Generative Parallax Simulation: Creative Cognition Models of Emergence for Simulation-Driven Model Discovery 59 Levent Yilmaz SECTION II EMERGENT BEHAVIOR MODELING IN COMPLEX SYSTEMS ENGINEERING 77 5 Complex Systems Engineering and the Challenge of Emergence 79 Andreas Tolk, Saikou Diallo, and Saurabh Mittal 6 Emergence in Complex Enterprises 99 William B. Rouse 7 Emergence in Information Economies: An Agent-Based Modeling Perspective 129 Erika Frydenlund and David C. Earnest 8 Modeling Emergence in Systems of Systems using Thermodynamic Concepts 149 John J. Johnson IV, Jose J. Padilla, and Andres Sousa-Poza 9 Induced Emergence in Computational Social Systems Engineering: Multimodels and Dynamic Couplings as Methodological Basis 171 Tuncer OEren, Saurabh Mittal, and Umut Durak 10 Applied Complexity Science: Enabling Emergence through Heuristics and Simulations 201 Michael D. Norman, Matthew T.K. Koehler, and Robert Pitsko SECTION III ENGINEERING EMERGENT BEHAVIOR IN COMPUTATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS 227 11 Toward the Automated Detection of Emergent Behavior 229 Claudia Szabo and Lachlan Birdsey 12 Isolating the Causes of Emergent Failures in Computer Software 263 Ross Gore 13 From Modularity to Complexity: A Cross-Disciplinary Framework for Characterizing Systems 285 Chih-Chun Chen and Nathan Crilly 14 The Emergence of Social Schemas and Lossy Conceptual Information Networks: How Information Transmission can lead to the Apparent Emergence of Culture 321 Justin E. Lane 15 Modeling and Simulation of Emergent Behavior in Transportation Infrastructure Restoration 349 Akhilesh Ojha, Steven Corns, Tom Shoberg, Ruwen Qin, and Suzanna Long SECTION IV RESEARCH AGENDA 369 16 Research Agenda for Next-Generation Complex Systems Engineering 371 Saikou Diallo, Saurabh Mittal, and Andreas Tolk INDEX 391

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SAURABH MITTAL, PhD, is Lead Systems Engineer/Scientist at MITRE Corporation, USA. He is also affiliated with Dunip Technologies, LLC, USA and Society of Modeling Simulation International, USA. He is a recipient of US Department of Defense's highest civilian contractor recognition: Golden Eagle. He has co-authored over eighty articles including two books: Netcentric System of Systems Engineering with DEVS Unified Process (CRC Press 2013) and Guide to Simulation-based Disciplines: Advancing our Computational Future (Springer 2017). SAIKOU DIALLO, PhD, is a Research Associate Professor at Old Dominion University's Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center. Dr. Diallo has studied the concepts of interoperability of simulations and composability of models for over ten years. He is the Vice President in charge of conferences and a member of the Board of Directors for the Society for Modeling and Simulation International (SCS). Dr. Diallo has over one hundred publications in peer-reviewed conferences, journals and books. ANDREAS TOLK, PhD, is Division Technology Integrator at The MITRE Corporation and Adjunct Professor at the Old Dominion University. He is a Fellow of the Society for Modeling and Simulation. He published several books on systems engineering and modeling and simulation topics, among them: Engineering Principles of Combat Modeling and Distributed Simulation (Wiley 2012), Modeling and Simulation Support for System of Systems Engineering Applications (Wiley 2015), and The Profession of Modeling and Simulation (Wiley 2017).

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