System Architecture and Complexity Vol. 2: Contribution of Systems of Systems to Systems Thinking

Cover --
Half-Title Page --
Title Page --
Copyright Page --
Contents --
Foreword --
Preface --
PART 1: The Foundations of Systemics --
Introduction to Part 1 --
1. The Legacy of Norbert Wiener and the Birth of Cybernetics --
1.1. The birth of systemics: the facts --
1.1.1. The idea of integration --
1.1.2. Implementation and the first applications --
1.2. Modeling for understanding: the computer science singularity --
1.3. Engineering in the 21st Century --
1.4. Education: systemics at MIT --
2. At the Origins of System Sciences: Communication and Control 2.1. A little systemic epistemology --
2.2. Systems sciences: elements of systemic phenomenology --
2.2.1. Control/regulation --
2.2.2. Communication/information --
2.3. The means of existence of technical objects --
3. The Definitions of Systemics: Integration and Interoperability of Systems --
3.1. A few common definitions --
3.2. Elements of the system --
3.3. Interactions between the elements of the system --
3.4. Organization of the system: layered architectures --
3.4.1. Classification trees --
3.4.2. Meaning and notation: properties of classification trees 4. The System and its Invariants --
4.1. Models --
4.2. Laws of conservation --
4.2.1. Invariance --
4.2.2. System safety: risks --
5. Generations of Systems and the System in the System --
5.1. System as a language --
5.2. The company as an integrated system --
5.2.1. The computer, driving force behind the information system --
5.2.2. Digital companies --
PART 2: A World of Systems of Systems --
Introduction to Part 2 --
6. The Problem of Control --
6.1. An open world: the transition from analog to all-digital --
6.2. The world of real time systems 6.3. Enterprise architectures: the digital firm --
6.4. Systems of systems --
7. Dynamics of Processes --
7.1. Processes --
7.2. Description of processes --
7.2.1. Generalizing to simplify --
7.2.2. Constructing and construction pathways --
7.2.3. Evolution of processes --
7.2.4. Antagonistic processes: forms of invariants --
7.3. Degenerative processes: faults, errors and "noise" --
7.4. Composition of processes --
7.4.1. Antagonistic interactions --
7.5. Energetics of processes and systems --
8. Interoperability --
8.1. Means of systemic growth --
8.2. Dynamics of the growth of systems 8.2.1. The nature of interactions between systems --
8.2.2. Pre-eminence of the interaction --
8.3. Limits of the growth of systems --
8.3.1. Limits and limitations regarding energy --
8.3.2. Information energy --
8.3.3. Limitations of external origin: PESTEL factors --
8.4. Growth by cooperation --
8.4.1. The individuation stage --
8.4.2. The cooperation/integration stage --
8.4.3. The opening stage --
9. Fundamental Properties of Systems of Systems --
9.1. Semantic invariance: notion of a semantic map --
9.2. Recursive organization of the semantic