Complex Adaptive Systems of Systems (CASOS) engineering environment.

Detry, Richard Joseph ; Linebarger, John Michael ; Finley, Patrick D. ; Maffitt, S. Louise ; Glass, Robert John, Jr. ; Beyeler, Walter Eugene ; Ames, Arlo Leroy

Sandia National Laboratories

关键词: 99 General And Miscellaneous//Mathematics, Computing, And Information Science;    Adaptive Systems;    Simulation;    42 Engineering;    Cultivation;   

DOI  :  10.2172/1038222
RP-ID  :  SAND2012-1117
RP-ID  :  AC04-94AL85000
RP-ID  :  1038222

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来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

Complex Adaptive Systems of Systems, or CASoS, are vastly complex physical-socio-technical systems which we must understand to design a secure future for the nation. The Phoenix initiative implements CASoS Engineering principles combining the bottom up Complex Systems and Complex Adaptive Systems view with the top down Systems Engineering and System-of-Systems view. CASoS Engineering theory and practice must be conducted together to develop a discipline that is grounded in reality, extends our understanding of how CASoS behave and allows us to better control the outcomes. The pull of applications (real world problems) is critical to this effort, as is the articulation of a CASoS Engineering Framework that grounds an engineering approach in the theory of complex adaptive systems of systems. Successful application of the CASoS Engineering Framework requires modeling, simulation and analysis (MS and A) capabilities and the cultivation of a CASoS Engineering Community of Practice through knowledge sharing and facilitation. The CASoS Engineering Environment, itself a complex adaptive system of systems, constitutes the two platforms that provide these capabilities.