EVALUATING TECHNICAL LEVEL OF COMPLEX TECHNICAL SYSTEMS

Multi-level Modeling of Complex Socio-Technical Systems

This report presents a conceptual framework for multi-level modeling of complex sociotechnical systems, provides linkages to the historical roots and technical underpinnings of this framework, and outlines a catalog of component models for populating multi-level models. This includes a description of the “systems movement,” a summary of philosophical underpinnings, a review of seminal concepts,...

Procurement of Complex Technical Systems

Reliability Estimation of Complex Technical Systems with

Complex technical systems may fail unexpectedly leading to process disruption and may bring a safety-hazard situation. The system failure is an outcome of failure dependency among subsystems where the degradation process of subsystems/components is random and uncertain process. Hence, reliability assessment of complex systems is of paramount importance. Quantitative reliability assessment needs...

Change Propagation Analysis in Complex Technical Systems

Understanding how and why changes propagate during engineering design is critical because most products and systems emerge from predecessors and not through clean sheet design. This paper examines a large data set from industry including 41,500 change requests that were generated during the design of a complex sensor system spanning a period of 8 years. In particular, the networks of connected ...

Multi - Level Modeling of Socio - Technical Systems – Volume 1 Technical Report SERC

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