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"This represents the most comprehensive systems engineering book, allowing systems engineers to evaluate increasingly complex problems and challenges through actual discrete events in order to reach the most effective solution. With world renowned systems engineers contributing, the book features 27 chapters, each on a different discrete event, with accompanying discussions and conclusions. The topics range from discrete event systems, distributed intelligent systems, grey systems, and enterprise information systems, to conflict resolution, robotics and intelligent sensing, systems biology, and system of systems approaches"--
List of contents
CONTRIBUTORS xxiii
PREFACE xxix
I SYSTEMS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING METHODOLOGIES 1
1 A SYSTEMS FRAMEWORK FOR SUSTAINABILITY 3
Ali G. Hessami, Feng Hsu, and Hamid Jahankhani
1.1 Introduction 3
1.2 A Unified Systems Sustainability Concept 5
1.3 Sustainability Assurance: The Framework 6
1.4 Technological Sustainability Case Study--Information Systems Security 13
1.5 Conclusions 17
2 SYSTEM OF SYSTEMS THINKING IN POLICY DEVELOPMENT: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES 21
Keith W. Hipel, Liping Fang, and Michele Bristow
2.1 Introduction 21
2.3 Complex Adaptive Systems 32
2.4 Risk, Uncertainty, and Unpredictability 37
2.5 System of Systems Modeling and Policy Development 42
2.6 Conclusions 58
3 SYSTEMIC YOYOS: AN INTUITION AND PLAYGROUND FOR GENERAL SYSTEMS RESEARCH 71
Yi Lin, Yi Dongyun, and Zaiwu Gong
3.1 Introduction 71
3.2 Theoretical and Empirical Justifications 81
3.3 Elementary Properties of Yoyo Fields 91
3.4 Applications in Social Sciences 102
3.5 Applications in Economics 113
3.6 Applications in the Foundations of Mathematics 127
3.7 Applications in Extreme Weather Forecast 137
3.8 Conclusions 143
4 GREY SYSTEM: THINKING, METHODS, AND MODELS WITH APPLICATIONS 153
Sifeng Liu, Jeffrey Y.L. Forrest, and Yingjie Yang
4.1 Introduction 153
4.2 Sequence Operators 157
4.3 Grey Incidence Analysis 163
4.4 Grey Cluster Evaluation Models 168
4.5 Grey Prediction Models 176
4.6 Grey Models for Decision-Making 193
4.7 Practical Applications 202
4.8 Introduction to the Software of Grey System Modeling 211
5 BUILDING RESILIENCE: NAVAL EXPEDITIONARY COMMAND AND CONTROL 225
Christopher Nemeth, Thomas Miller, Michael Polidoro, and C. Matthew O'Connor
5.1 Introduction 225
5.2 Expeditionary Operations Command and Control 226
5.3.1 Envisioned World Problem 229
5.4 Discussion 232
5.5 Future Work 236
5.6 Conclusions 237
II LEARNING AND CONTROL 241
6 ADVANCES AND CHALLENGES ON INTELLIGENT LEARNING IN CONTROL SYSTEMS 243
Ching-Chih Tsai, Kao-Shing Hwang, Alan Liu, and Chia-Feng Juang
6.1 Introduction 243
6.2 Reinforcement Learning 245
6.3 Bio-Inspired Evolutionary Learning Control 252
6.4 Intelligent Learning Control Using Fuzzy Neural Networks 254
6.5 Case-Based Reasoning and Learning 257
6.6 Conclusions 260
7 ADAPTIVE CLASSIFIERS FOR NONSTATIONARY ENVIRONMENTS 265
Cesare Alippi, Giacomo Boracchi, Manuel Roveri, Gregory Ditzler, and Robi Polikar
7.1 Introduction 265
7.2 Definition of the Problem 266
7.3 Learning Concept Drifts 268
7.4 Change Detection 272
7.5 Assessing the Performance: Figures of Merit 278
7.6 Conclusions 282
8 MODELING, ANALYSIS, SCHEDULING, AND CONTROL OF CLUSTER TOOLS IN SEMICONDUCTOR FABRICATION 289
Nai Qi Wu, Mengchu Zhou, Feng Chu, and Sayd Mammar
8.1 Introduction 289
8.2 Cluster Tools and Their Operations 290
8.3 Modeling and Performance Evaluation 295
8.4 Single Cluster Tool Scheduling 302
8.5 Scheduling of Multi-cluster Tools 308
8.6 Conclusions 311
9 DESIGN, SIMULATION, AND DYNAMIC CONTROL OF LARGE-SCALE MANUFACTURING PROCESS WITH DIFFERENT FORMS OF UNCERTAINTIES 317
Hyunsoo Lee and Amarnath Banerjee
9.1 Introduction 317
9.2 Background and Literature Review 322
9.3 Different
About the author
MengChu Zhou is a Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the
New Jersey Institute of Technology (
NJIT),
USA. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, and is a fellow of IEEE, IFAC, and AAAS.
Han-Xiong Li is a Professor in the Department of Systems Science and Engineering and Engineering Management at the
City University of Hong Kong,
HK. Dr. Li Serves as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.
Margot Weijnen is a full Professor of Process and Energy Systems Engineering at
Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. She is the founding and Scientific Director of Next Generation Infrastructures and, since 2013, a member of the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy. She is a founding fellow of ISEAM and European editor of the Journal of Critical Infrastructures.
Summary
Various systems science and engineering disciplines are covered and challenging new research issues in these disciplines are revealed. They will be extremely valuable for the readers to search for some new research directions and problems.
