Organization and Pedagogy of Complexity: Systemic Case Studies and Prospects [Hardcover]

Organization and Pedagogy of Complexity deals with real systems, their architecture, and speaks of those who design, develop and maintain them.

After a summary of the architecture proposed by Daniel Krob, president of CESAMES in Paris, France, the book focuses on the sensor and effector equipment that routes and converts the system's information to the place where it is processed. These are the equivalent of the system's sense organs. It also analyzes the roots of complexity from the perspective of combinatorics: in real systems, everything comes down to cases and/or configurations being validated in greater or lesser numbers, but which must be kept under control.

This book presents two case studies, giving a global vision of complexity. Finally, it presents a prospective approach that brings the engineering of artificial systems closer to that of biological systems, based on first-hand information provided by Philippe Kourilsky, Emeritus Professor at the Coll?ge de France.

Preface ix

Part 1 The Organic Component of Systems 1

Introduction to Part 1 3

Chapter 1 Elements of Systemics: Systems Architecture 5

1.1 Introduction 5

1.2 Systemic definition of a system 7

1.2.1 From real systems to formal systems 7

1.2.2 Definition of a system 7

1.2.3 Integration of systems 9

1.3 Organization of a systemic model 12

1.3.1 Architectural visions of a system 12

1.3.2 Properties of a system 17

1.3.3 Descriptions of a system 18

1.3.4 Reference framework for system analysis 20

1.4 Architecture of a system 22

1.4.1 Systemic perspective of the systems architecture prol.