1. What is a complex system? What are its properties?
A system is an ancient abstract notion (ancient Greece) that is very useful today for creating and designing future products, services, organizations or a composition of these elements.
A system is characterized by a set of components (technological hardware, software, human operators, materials, procedures, services); the components interact strongly, and flow material, energy and information in a given environment or context. This assembly satisfies needs and expectations; it accomplishes a mission with prescribed objectives, enabling it to achieve or respond to a purpose.
To fully define your system, you need to instantiate each term in the above definition, and characterize the whole according to four major aspects:
The expectations,...
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International standards
ISO-IEC 15288 - Systems and software engineering - System Life Cycle Processes (2008)
ISO-IEC 19760 - Systems and software engineering - Guide for Application of ISO-IEC 15288 (2003)
ANSI/EIA 632 - Processes for engineering a system (1998)
ISO/IEC 26702...
Websites
www.incose.org International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) is a not-for-profit membership organization founded in 1990. Its mission is to share, promote and advance the best of systems engineering from across the globe for the benefit of humanity and the planet.
Regulations
There are no regulations for system design in general. Only industrial sectors have regulations on the subject: aeronautics, railways, medicine, medical biology, etc.
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INSAVALOR formation continue Fundamentals of complex systems engineering.
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Acronyms
SBS: System Breakdown Structure
SysML: System Modelling Language
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