Systems Science
A special issue of Systems (ISSN 2079-8954).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2021) | Viewed by 7021
Special Issue Editors
2. Chair of the Systems Science Working Group at INCOSE, 7670 Opportunity Rd, Suite 220, San Diego, CA 92111-2222, USA
Interests: integration of systems science into industrial and systems engineering; engineering of organization cultures; systemology; engineering management; system architecture
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Special Issue Information
Every year, the Systems Science Working Group (SSWG) convenes at the INCOSE International Workshop and INCOSE International Symposium, where everyone with an interest in exploring, learning, and/or sharing their knowledge of how to integrate systems science into systems engineering practice convene. What makes contributions in this area fundamental to systems engineering and systems science is that systems engineering is informed by systems science while systems engineering validates and verifies the claims and practice recommendations of systems science knowledge. In other words, systems engineers are the systems science experimentalists.
This Special Issue aims at identifying and enhancing:
- Systemic definitions, concepts, principles, laws, and models that are scientifically meaningful and are general enough for systems engineering and systems science.
- Foundational terminology to enable more efficient collaboration between systems scientists and systems engineers.
- A structured set of scientific principles that can guide judgement making and action taking in systems engineering practice.
- A set of archetypes, prototypical systems processes, linkage propositions, and pathologies to enhance engineering methods and activities.
- Models to help us verify and validate our designs by mapping the logical coherence between theories and nature.
Dr. Javier Calvo-Amodio
Dr. James Martin
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- systems science
- systemic definitions
- fundamental contributions to systems engineering
- decision making in systems engineering
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