Contemporary Issues in Systems Science and Engineering

This volume provides a comprehensive overview of all important areas in systems science and engineering and poses the issues and challenges in these areas in order to deal with ever-increasingly complex systems and newly emergent applications. The topics range from discrete event systems, distributed intelligent systems, grey systems, and enterprise information systems to conflict resolution, robotics and intelligent sensing, smart grids, and system of systems approaches. Individual chapters are written by leading experts in the field.

Additional features include:

• Presents multiple systems science and engineering topics in-depth
• Each section includes detailed problems, technical issues, and solution methodologies, illustrated with a series of significant examples
• Discusses important ideas for future research

This volume can be viewed as a handbook in this important field, as well as an important reference book for researchers and practicing engineers.