Introduction to Complex-System Engineering for ICCS 07
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Date
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
Time
6:00PM
Speaker
Mr. Michael L. Kuras
Description
The presentation begins with a brief review of so called traditional system engineering (TSE). The two fundamental reasons for the growing catalog of TSE “failures” are identified. One of these reasons is an unquestioned reliance on the correctness of reductionism. Many of the problems to which TSE is currently being applied are not fully reducible. A more generalized template for solving problems is needed. A more generalized template would permit recourse to Multi Scale Analysis and to methods that can be used to modulate the processes of evolution. These are the essential elements of complex-system engineering, and an overview of both elements is provided.
Although this presentation is an overview, it extends earlier work by the author by making explicit the predicates of evolution that drive the development of a system at one or more scales of conceptualization, and how to model such evolution as it progresses through multiple scales of conceptualization. The role of Price’s Equation and Reed Networks are highlighted in this regard.
Speaker Bio
Mr. Michael L. Kuras received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Wayne State University, and his M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from NYU. He worked for Bell Telephone Laboratories (as a member of technical staff), then for ITT (lastly as Director of System Engineering in their American ITT Telecom Division), and finally for MITRE (where he focused his attention on improving the discipline of system engineering). He left MITRE in 2006.
Location
MITRE Corporation
Room 1M306 - go to the M-Building Lobby
202 Burlington Road,
Bedford, MA. 01730-1420
Cost
INCOSE Members $10
Non members: Free for first meeting
Student members: Free
Payable at the door.
Reservations
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