A significant increase in System-of-Systems (SoS) is currently observed in the social and technical domains. As a result of the increasing number of constituent system components, Systems of Systems are becoming larger and more complex. Recent resear...
The main aim of this paper is to show how the design and creation of computational models to study and simulate of the behaviour of dynamical complex systems, and in particular crowds of pedestrian, actually implicitly employs elements of a framework...
14 April 2020
Action on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) needs to become real and impactful, taking a “whole systems” perspective on levers for systems change. This article reviews what we have learned over the past century about the large-scal...
An entropic functional S is said additive if it satisfies, for any two probabilistically independent systems A and B, that
Complex systems with symmetry arise in many fields, at various length scales, including financial markets, social, transportation, telecommunication and power grid networks, world and country economies, ecosystems, molecular dynamics, immunology, liv...
Geometry is typically treated as a primitive background structure within which physical processes unfold. In this work, we investigate an alternative possibility: that geometry can arise as a structural consequence of relational dynamics. We study th...
The ability to solve modern complex systems becomes a necessity of the 21st century. The purpose of this study is the development of an instrument that measures an individual’s perception toward solving complex problems. Based on literature and defin...
Based on two fractional-order chaotic complex drive systems and one fractional-order chaotic complex response system with different dimensions, we propose generalized combination complex synchronization. In this new synchronization scheme, there are...
The city represents a complex adaptive system consisting of a set of interconnected subsystems within self-organization and flexible structures that give it the ability to adapt to continue operating over time. This research discusses the adaptive fl...
Defining a complex system and evaluating its complexity typically requires an interdisciplinary approach, integrating information theory, signal processing techniques, principles of dynamical systems, algorithm length analysis, and network science. T...
The strategic design of organizations in an environment where complexity is constantly increasing, as in the cyber-physical systems typical of Industry 4.0, is a process full of uncertainties. Leaders are forced to make decisions that affect other or...
Despite a profusion of literature on complex adaptive system (CAS) definitions, it is still challenging to definitely answer whether a given system is or is not a CAS. The challenge generally lies in deciding where the boundaries lie between a comple...
Since the product of complex numbers and rectangular fuzzy complex numbers (RFCN) is not necessarily a RFCN in the former fuzzy complex linear system (FCLS), the scalar multiplication and addition operations of complex numbers and fuzzy complex numbe...
Complex systems science has contributed to our understanding of ecology in important areas such as food webs, patch dynamics and population fluctuations. This has been achieved through the use of simple measures that can capture the difference betwee...
In this paper, we explore how we can use catchment resilience as a unifying concept to manage and regulate catchments, using structured reviews to support our perspective. Catchments are complex systems with interrelated natural, social, and technica...
This paper provides an introduction to, and an overview of, the Special Issue on the application of systems approach to the management of complex water systems. The main motivation in proposing this Special Issue was that today, more than ever, we ne...
Complex systems (CS) are pervasive in many areas of science and technology, namely in financial
markets, transportation, telecommunication and social networks, world and country economies,
immunological systems, living organisms, computational systems,...
The formation of complex systems is accompanied by the emergence of properties that are non-existent in the components. But what of the properties and behaviour of such components caught up in the formation of a system of a higher level of complexity...
In this paper, we investigate the combination synchronization of three nonlinear complex hyperchaotic systems: the complex hyperchaotic Lorenz system, the complex hyperchaotic Chen system and the complex hyperchaotic L¨u system. Based on the Lyapunov...
Dynamics always exist in complex systems. Graphs (complex networks) are a mathematical form for describing a complex system abstractly. Dynamics can be learned efficiently from the structure and dynamics state of a graph. Learning the dynamics in gra...
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 special issue collects contributions from the participants of the “Information in Dynamical Systems and Complex Systems” workshop, which cover a wide range of important problems and new approaches that lie in the intersection of information theo...
With the advent of AI- and robot-systems, the current Human–Computer Interaction (HCI) paradigm, which treats interaction as a transactional exchange, is increasingly insufficient for complex socio-technical systems. This paper argues for a shi...
This paper traverses the domains of leadership and decision-making within various types of systems with different levels of complexity. The article presents some background about both leadership and decision-making, and then explores the concept of l...
Similar to natural complex systems, such as the Earth’s climate or a living cell, semiconductor lithography systems are characterized by nonlinear dynamics across more than a dozen orders of magnitude in space and time. Thousands of sensors measure r...
Wicked problems spanning systemic educational inequities, economic disparities, and environmental sustainability resist most traditional change efforts. This theory-building article advances a systems explanation that introduces complex conceptual sy...
Deep learning models and graphics processing units have completely transformed the field of machine learning. Recurrent neural networks and long short-term memories have been successfully used to model and predict complex systems. However, these clas...
The dynamics of complex systems often exhibit multifractal properties, where interactions across different scales influence their evolution. In this study, we apply the Multifractal Theory of Motion within the framework of scale relativity theory to...
We detail a procedure to transform the current empirical stage in the study of complex systems into a predictive phenomenological one. Our approach starts with the statistical-mechanical Landau-Ginzburg equation for dissipative processes, such as kin...
Complex networks is a growing discipline aimed at understanding large interacting systems. One of its goals is to establish a relation between the interactions of a system and the networks structure that emerges. Taking a Lennard-Jones particle syste...
In this paper, we primarily investigate the methodology for the hybrid complex projective synchronization (HCPS) scheme in non-identical complex fractional order chaotic systems via an active complex synchronization technique (ACST). Appropriate cont...
Complex systems are composed of a large number of individual components. Many of these systems are separable, i.e., they can be split into two coupled subsystems: one with foreground components and another with background components. The former leads...
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...
14 May 2019
Challenges in changing school system functioning to orient them towards health are commonly underestimated. Understanding the social interactions of school staff from a complex systems perspective may provide valuable insight into how system dynamics...
By designing a state observer, a new type of synchronization named complex modified projective synchronization is investigated in a class of nonlinear fractional-order complex chaotic systems. Combining stability results of the fractional-order syste...
Multifractal analysis has evolved from a formalism for heterogeneous scaling into a broader framework for investigating structure, dynamics, representation, computation, and learning systems. This critical integrative review synthesizes methodologica...
Real systems are often complex, nonlinear, and noisy in various fields, including mathematics, natural science, and social science. We present the symplectic entropy (SymEn) measure as well as an analysis method based on SymEn to estimate the nonline...
A characteristic feature of complex systems is their deep structure, meaning that the definition of their states and observables depends on the level, or the scale, at which the system is considered. This scale dependence is reflected in the distinct...
Technology forecasting (TF) is an important way to address technological innovation in fast-changing market environments and enhance the competitiveness of organizations in dynamic and complex environments. However, few studies have investigated the...
What does it mean for a complex system to “compute” or perform “computations”? Intuitively, we can understand complex “computation” as occurring when a system’s state is a function of multiple inputs (potenti...
In this review I show that four major kinds of theoretical approaches have been used to explain the scaling of metabolic rate in cells, organisms and groups of organisms in relation to system size. They include models focusing on surface-area related...
Information is the fundamental currency of naturally occurring complex adaptive systems, whether they are individual organisms or collective social insect colonies. Information appears to be more important than energy in determining the behavior of t...
Complex systems involve monitoring, assessing, and predicting the health of various systems within an integrated vehicle health management (IVHM) system or a larger system. Health management applications rely on sensors that generate useful informati...
In this contribution, we generalize existing methods for decentralized control design, providing a unified methodological framework that applies to linear continuous and discrete-time complex systems, as well as certain classes of nonlinear complex s...
This paper proposes an entropy–topological method for the analysis of multicomponent complex systems that accounts for the relative incompatibility of system parameters, in particular physical, chemical, and other mechanisms, with configuration...
The development of engineered systems for energy dissipation (or absorption) during impacts or vibrations is an increasing need in our society, mainly for human protection applications, but also for ensuring the right performance of different sort of...
The cardinality of the class, C , of complex intelligent systems, i.e., systems of intelligent systems and their resources, is steadily increasing. Such an increase, whether designed, sometimes changes significantly and fundamentally, the structure o...
In this contribution, a methodology for the optimal tuning of controllers of complex systems based on meta–heuristic techniques is proposed. Two bio-inspired meta-heuristic optimization algorithms –the Antlion Optimizer (ALO) and the Whal...
The analysis of complex system reliability is an area of growing interest, particularly given the diverse and intricate nature of the subsystems and components these systems encompass. Tackling the reliability of such multifaceted systems presents ch...
Background/Objectives: This article explores the theoretical and practical implications of the meaning of thinking, living, and acting within the framework of nursing in Complex Adaptive Systems. The Nursing Theory of Complex Adaptive Systems is grou...
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