Complex systems

Barry  Keepence; Mike Mannion

doi:10.1109/ECBS.1997.581896

Complex systems

Barry Keepence, Mike Mannion

School of Computing, Engineering and Built Environment

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Abstract

Every organisation from the scale of whole countries down to small companies has a list of system developments which have ended in various forms of disaster. The nature of the failures varies but typical examples are: cost overruns; timescale overruns and sometimes, loss of life. The post-mortems to these systems reveal a wide range of reasons all the way from hardware failures, through software errors right to major system level mistakes. More importantly a large number of these systems share one attribute: complexity. This paper presents a fresh look at the nature of complexity in the building of computer based systems.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the International Conference and Workshop on Engineering of Computer-Based Systems, 1997
Editors	Jerzy Rozenblit, Tony Ewing, Stephan Schulz
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	324-326
Number of pages	3
ISBN (Print)	0818678895
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ECBS.1997.581896
Publication status	Published - 1997
Event	International Conference and Workshop on Engineering of Computer-Based Systems (IEEE) - Monterey, United States Duration: 24 Mar 1997 → 28 Mar 1997

Conference

Conference	International Conference and Workshop on Engineering of Computer-Based Systems (IEEE)
Country/Territory	United States
City	Monterey
Period	24/03/97 → 28/03/97

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Keepence, B & Mannion, M 1997, Complex systems. in J Rozenblit, T Ewing & S Schulz (eds), Proceedings of the International Conference and Workshop on Engineering of Computer-Based Systems, 1997. IEEE, pp. 324-326, International Conference and Workshop on Engineering of Computer-Based Systems (IEEE), Monterey, California, United States, 24/03/97. https://doi.org/10.1109/ECBS.1997.581896

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