Complex, Sociotechnical Systems (css): Some Fundamental Concepts
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Our interests in ESD.00 are largely focused on complex, sociotechnical systems (CSS)— understanding and improving them and developing methods for representing and designing them. By CSS, we mean (for our purposes here), large-impact, difficult-tounderstand systems that have important technology issues and important societal implications. We will spare you, for now, the myriad definitions of “complexity”.
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تاریخ انتشار 2012