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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 |
