Symposium on Complex Systems Engineering
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[edit] Thursday January 11 (9:00 am) - Friday January 12 (4:30 pm), 2007.
Location: The RAND Corporation, 1776 Main St., Santa Monica, Ca. 90401. (Click the address for a map.)
[edit] Participants and papers. (Paper Summaries. Schedule. Ride share.)
The various notes pages are for your use. Click the link to access the page. (You will be prompted to create an account the first time. It's easy.) We can use this capability to share our thoughts about the papers prior to getting together in person. (This is a wiki after all.)
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Putting complex systems to work Opening remarks |
The Aerospace Corporation & California State University, Los Angeles |
Computer Science (Emergence) | Organizing committee. See also If a tree casts a shadow is it telling the time?, |
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Stability: A Contribution Complex Systems can make to System of Systems Engineering? | USC and Rand | Systems Engineering | |
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Optimizing genetic algorithm strategies for evolving networks | Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) (Australia) | Complex Adaptive Systems | Previous paper on evolution of networks, without crossover operator. |
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Paper removed at author's request. | Michigan State University | Political Science and agent-based modeling | |
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System of Systems – the meaning of of | Stevens Institute of Technology | Systems of Systems and Enterprise Architecting | |
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Putting Systems to Work: Processes for Expanding System Capabilities Through System of Systems Acquisitions | USC | Software intensive systems, cost modeling, system development processes | |
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Some Thoughts on Systems Engineering, Engineering Systems & Complexity | University of Loughborough | Systems Engineering | |
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An information-theoretic primer on complexity, self-organization, and emergence | Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (Australia) | Mathematics of Complex Systems | Some thoughts about emergence |
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Untangling the Information Web of Complex System Design | U. Mass, Dartmouth & NECSI | Complex Socio-Engineered Systems | |
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Program Architecture and Adaptation | Texas Christian University | Enterprise Operations, Design Structure Matrix | |
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A Swarm Ontology for Complex Systems Modeling | Deere & Company | System Modelling | See Systems Modeling Language (SysML): Overview and Modeling System Structure and Dynamics with SysML Blocks. |
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Practicing Enterprise Systems Engineering | MITRE | Implementing complex systems | MITRE VP |
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Lessons from Defense Planning and Analysis for Thinking About Systems of Systems | RAND | Systems engireening; systems of systems | Our host |
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Systems-within-Systems: A Unifying Paradigm | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Systems Engineering | "Bridging the Temporal Threshold between Reality and Virtuality" |
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Towards a Theory of Scale-Free Graphs | California Institute of Technology | Control and Dynamical Systems | Theory/foundations for complex networks, apps to net-centric tech and bio nets, multi-scale physics |
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The Success or Failure of Adaptation | Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) (Australia) | Complex Systems | Co-Adaptation |
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Toward the Computer-Automated Design of Sophisticated Systems by Enabling Structural Organization | UC Santa Cruz at NASA Ames Research Center. | Representations for computer-automated design; Genetic Programming; Developmental Systems | Editor of a Special Issue of The Journal of Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines on Developmental Systems. |
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Self-Evaluating Agile Large-Scale Systems: SEALS | University of Virginia | MITRE founder and former CEO. | |
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Guiding an adaptive system through chaos | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Physics; chaos; complex systems | Executive Editor Complexity and organizer Understanding Complex Systems Symposium |
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Excerpts from Extending Ourselves [on modeling and simulation] | University of Virginia | Philosophy of computational science, emergence, probability theory, strategy, causation, and explanation | Extending Ourselves Computational Science, Empiricism, and Scientific Method |
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An Example of Modeling and Simulation of Large-Scale Complex Systems, Processes, and Behaviors | The Aerospace Corporation | Modeling | Organizing committee. Program Chair of IEEE SoSE and liason to IEEE SMC. |
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From "The Magic Gig" to Reliable Organizations: A New Paradigm for the Control of Complex Systems | The Organization Zone LLC | Systems and cybernetic theory, complex adaptive systems, dynamical systems, catastrophe theory applied to social and sociotechnical systems | The Short Version; Effective Control in Complex Organizations (dissertation) |
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Complex-System Engineering | MITRE | complex systems theory; CSE | |
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COSOSIMO Parameter Definitions | USC | System of systems engineering | |
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Dimensions of Complexity other than “Complexity” | The Aerospace Corporation | System architecture, Systems of Systems | |
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Complex Systems Engineering for the Global information Grid. (.ppt) & (.pdf) | SRI | Netcentric operations, large-scale distributed architectures, modeling and simulation, | |
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10 Barriers to Complexity Science | Selex | Systems Engineering and Complexity | |
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Let’s focus on the manner and means of evolution | MITRE | Systems engineering | Organizing committee. |
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Containing Agents: Contexts, Projections, and Agents and Agent-based Meta-Models | Argonne Natl. Labs. | Environments for agent-based modeling | |
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Normal Accident Theory | Yale | Sociology: engineering failures. | Normal Accidents |
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Evolving Spatiotemporal Coordination in a Modular Robotic System | CSIRO ICT Centre (Australia) | Complex multi-agent systems | |
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Emergence is coupled to scope, not level | Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) (Australia) | Complex adaptive systems | |
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Principles of Complex Systems for Systems Engineering | Third Millennium Systems | Systems Engineering | Organizing committee. |
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From Complex Conflicts to Stable Cooperation Cases in Environment and Security | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Complexity science applications to environment and security | |
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Why we need systems biology (Figure 1) | Harvard Medical School | Systems biology | One of the founders of the field of systems biology, whose "focus is to explain how the higher level properties of complex systems materialize from the interactions among their parts." |
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Principled Synthesis for large-scale multi-robot systems: task sequencing | USC | Computer Science (Robotics) | |
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Establishing a Network Centric Capability: Implications for Acquisition and Engineering | SEI | Software Intensive Systems | |
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Neutral Emergence: a proposal | University of York | Genetic algorithms | |
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Evolutionary Computation Technologies for Space Systems | JPL | Genetic algorithms | Winner of a "Hummie" silver prize at GECCO 2005 for human competitive results using genetic algorithms or genetic programming. |
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Systems Engineering in the 21st Century: Implications from Complexity Theory: slides & text | The Aerospace Corporation | Decision making; systems engineering | |
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UML Modeling of Finite State Machines and Molecular Machines | Primordion | UML for biological modeling | |
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What are highest priorities in building intellectual infrastructure to understand & design Complex Human Systems (CHS)? The case for Multi-Agent Based Simulation | The Aerospace Corporation | Agent Based Modeling | Organizing committee. |
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Multi-Scale Modeling of the Air and Space Operations Center | MITRE | Systems of Systems | Organizing committee. |
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Using Self-dissimilarity to Quantify Complexity | NASA Ames | Mathematics of complex systems | Author of the "No Free Lunch" theorem and other innovative work in the mathematics of complex systems. Other papers of interest: |
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Issues in the Structure and Information Flow in the Pyramid of Combat Models | The Aerospace Corporation | Complex Systems |
