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The geological complexity, environmental sensitivity, and ecological fragility inherent in complex and difficult areas (CDAs) present new opportunities and challenges for technological innovation in railway engineering development in China. At the cu...

In the face of escalating global competition in science and technology, complex product systems (CoPS) have emerged as a significant indicator of comprehensive national strength. The exploration of the catch-up phenomenon holds substantial implicatio...

Systems engineering is an ubiquitous discipline of Engineering overlapping industrial, chemical, mechanical, manufacturing, control, software, electrical, and civil engineering. It provides tools for dealing with the complexity and dynamics related t...

This paper presents a novel integration of Systems Engineering (SE) methodologies and Industry 4.0 (I4.0) technologies in the design of robotic systems, focusing on enhancing underwater robotic missions. Using the conceptual design of an underwater e...

This paper introduces an iceberg-based digital risk twin (DRT) framework for the health monitoring of complex engineering systems. The proposed model transforms multidimensional sensor and contextual data into a structured, interpretable three-dimens...

Fault diagnostics aims to locate the origin of an abnormity if it presents and therefore maximize the system performance during its full life-cycle. Many studies have been devoted to the feature extraction and isolation mechanisms of various faults....

Dynamic Bayesian networks (DBNs) represent complex time-dependent causal relationships through the use of conditional probabilities and directed acyclic graph models. DBNs enable the forward and backward inference of system states, diagnosing current...

Currently, technological advances and developments are leading to the rapid emergence of high-end technology products, accompanied by a variety of customer requirements, which will lead to engineering system design projects becoming more complex. The...

One of the problems of risk analysis of complex engineering systems is the uncertainty of initial information about the time and damage associated with occurrence and development of the risk situation. The paper proposes a methodology and procedure f...

The limitations of model-based support for engineering complex systems include limited capability to develop multifaceted models as well as their analysis with robust reliable simulation engines. Lack of such Modeling and Simulation (M&S) infrast...

Systems engineering (SE) solves the most complex problems, bringing together societal issues, theoretical engineering, and the transformation of theory into products and services to better humanity and reduce suffering. In industry, the effort to tra...

In this article, we model the two most market-capitalised public, open and permissionless blockchain implementations, Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH), as a System of Systems (SoS) of public blockchains. We study the concepts of blockchain, BTC, ETH,...

In an increasingly complex world there is a real, urgent need for methodologies to enable engineers to model complex sociotechnical systems, as these now seem to describe the majority of systems in use today. This is, of course, exacerbated by the in...

Systems engineering finds its origin in analyzing and exploring complicated technical systems. In this positioning paper, we set out to discuss the value and limitations of a Systems Engineering approach in its contribution to societal challenges, no...

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) integrate computation, networking and physical processes to produce products that are autonomous, intelligent, connected and collaborative. Resulting Cyber-Physical Systems of Systems (CPSoS) have unprecedented capabiliti...

This paper provides a comprehensive review of recent advancements in computational methods for modeling, simulation, and optimization of complex systems in materials engineering, mechanical engineering, and energy systems. We identified key trends an...

The United Nation’s sustainable development goals (SDGs) are interconnected and indivisible and need to be addressed in a systematic and holistic way. However, a lack of stakeholder perspective, fragmented responses, and a dearth of integration acros...

Model Based Systems Engineering as a scientific discipline tries to address the increasing complexity of today’s cyber-physical systems by utilizing different kinds of models. In practical application, however, this approach is often constraine...

This scientific article discusses the process of digital transformation of enterprises, analyzed as complex technical systems. Digital transformation is essential for businesses to remain competitive in the global marketplace. One of the effective to...

The automotive industry is undergoing a significant transition, where the development of Battery Electric Vehicles (BEV) and the increasing use of intelligent vehicle functions are transforming vehicles into advanced Cyber-Physical Systems. For heavy...

The increasing intersection of psychotherapy, cognitive science, neuroscience, and systems engineering beckons us to rethink what it means to talk the language of the human mind in the clinical setting. This position paper proposes the idea of entang...

In the context of socio-technical systems, traditional engineering approaches are inadequate, calling for a fundamental change in perspective. A different approach encourages viewing socio-technical systems as complex living entities rather than thro...

Continuous improvement in the operational characteristics of gas turbine equipment and a significant reduction in the time of its creation have led to the development and application of new technologies for conducting research tests of a gas generato...

The automotive industry is experiencing a surge in system complexity driven by the ever-growing number of interacting components, subsystems, and control systems. This complexity is further amplified by the expanding range of component options availa...

Model-based systems engineering (MBSE) is a leading paradigm for the analyses and development of complex systems. However, the development of modeling and simulation infrastructure supporting MBSE is lacking, which limits the application of MBSE. To...

To solve the problem of traditional engineering drilling rig propulsion systems being difficult to adapt to complex working conditions due to their bulky structure and poor load adaptability, this study proposes a new type of mechanical hydraulic com...

Lithium-ion battery systems are a core component for electric mobility, which has become increasingly important in the last decade. The rising number of new manufacturers and model variants also increases competitive pressure. Competition is shorteni...

With multiple primary and secondary energy converters (diesel engines, steam turbines, waste heat recovery (WHR) and oil-fired boilers, etc.) and extensive energy networks (steam, cooling water, exhaust gases, etc.), ships may be considered as comple...

Nonlinear mapping is an essential and common demand in online systems, such as sensor systems and mobile phones. Accelerating nonlinear mapping will directly speed up online systems. Previously the authors of this paper proposed a Dendrite Net (DD) w...

Systemic cognition combines the humanities and social sciences with systems science to support a unified field, Human Systems Integration (HSI). It draws on complementary, sometimes conflicting, fields of research, including phenomenology, positivism...

This article is an insight into interdisciplinary topics in the field of civil engineering, morphology, architecture, mechanics, and computer programming. A novel method for shaping unconventional complex roofs in which regular folded units transform...

As a virtual digital model that can reflect physical entities or systems, digital twins are revolutionizing industry. The first prerequisite for the construction of digital twins is the establishment of high-precision and complex entities or system m...

Construction projects have a high degree of complexity due to both the high degree of uncertainty in process and goals, and the large number of components and stakeholders’ interdependences. In the case of Engineer-to-order (ETO) building syste...

Complex Engineering Systems are subject to cyber-attacks due to inherited vulnerabilities in the underlying entities constituting them. System Resiliency is determined by its ability to return to a normal state under attacks. In order to analyze the...

Health monitoring and advanced fault diagnosis are now critical features in modern engineering systems, the increasing complexity and new frameworks of which elevated the pressure for dependable reliability and safety measures [...]

In this Topic, 34 (thirty-four) papers were selected and published on the following sub-themes: Modeling and Nonlinear Systems (Contributions 1–5); Control, Synchronization, and Optimization (Contributions 6–13); Chaos and Hyperchaos (Con...

This study is dedicated to the development of an advanced ship piping network programming tool to address the challenges faced by traditional text-based design and computation methods when dealing with complex and large-data-volume piping systems, su...

In complex discrete manufacturing environment, there used to be a poor network and an isolated information island in production line, which led to slow information feedback and low utilization ratio, hindering the construction of enterprise intellige...

Contemporary manufacturing systems are undergoing a major change promoted by emerging technologies such as Cyber-physical Systems (CPS) or the Internet of Things (IoT). This trend, nowadays widely known by the term “Industry 4.0”, leads to a new kind...

To achieve carbon neutrality and address global energy supply issues by 2050, there is active progress in the industrial sector for waste energy recovery and commercialization projects. It is necessary to consider both the energy recovery efficiency...

This article explores co-creative problem solving to support rapid learning of systems knowledge in the concept phase towards innovation. We introduce the term co-creative problem solving to describe the act of collective creation between systems eng...

This paper presents a method for creating the system architecture of existing industrial objects based on Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) principles. The method aims to form a digital representation of physical objects, which is crucial in the...

Modern society is facing great challenges due to pollution and increased carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions. As part of solving these challenges, the use of renewable energy sources and electric vehicles (EVs) is rapidly increasing. However, increased dy...

The traditional ground taxiing method of aircraft has the drawbacks of low efficiency and excessive fuel consumption. In this paper, an aircraft engine-off taxi towing system (AEOTTS) is proposed to provide high-speed traction for the aircraft throug...

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Background: Agricultural logistics in arid, geographically dispersed areas require complex trade-offs among efficiency, equity, and robustness under uncertainty. Standard multi-objective vehicle routing problem (VRP) formulations, which primarily foc...

Based on cluster system theory and the Markov process, a performance prediction method utilizing time-dependent subsystem transfers between family systems is proposed in this paper. The family system is divided via the mean clustering method, with th...

Technological progress, upcoming cyber-physical systems, and limited resources confront small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with the challenge of complexity management in product development projects spanning over the entire product lifecycle....

With the introduction of Industry 4.0, occupational health and safety finds itself confronted with new types of hazards. Many Industry 4.0 innovations involve increased machine intelligence. These properties make socio-technical work in Industry 4.0...

The pressures of an everchanging world have impacted the ways in which service-based systems operate, along with their forms and boundaries. Resilience and survivability have been treated interchangeably when readying a system to remain true to its f...