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CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Issue of Concurrent Engineering: Research and Application (CERA) Journal
'A Complex Systems Perspective on Concurrent Engineering'
Guest editors Dan Braha (MIT) Mark Klein (MIT) Yaneer Bar-Yam (NECSI) Hiroki Sayama (NECSI)
Why can concurrent engineering projects take so long and cost so much, despite our best efforts to use such apparently sensible techniques as multi-functional design teams, set-based design, and computer-aided collaborative design tools? How can we cope with the increasing scale and complexity of such projects? The emerging discipline of complex systems research offers a new and potentially powerful perspective on these problems, by attempting to understand the dynamics of distributed systems using such concepts as chaos, power laws, self-similarity, emergence, self-organization, networks, adaptation, evolution, etc.
This special issue solicits papers that apply the complex systems perspective to understanding and improving the dynamics of the concurrent engineering process. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Emergent behavior in collaborative design - Non-linear and chaotic dynamics of collaborative design - Interaction between technical, environmental and socio-economic factors - Evidence of chaos and nonlinear phenomena in product development
- Network dynamics in concurrent engineering - Distributed structures of workgroups in collaborative design - Pattern formation in workgroups and cooperative teamwork - Critical connectivity effect on product development performance
- Classification of complex collaborative design - Complexity measures in collaborative design - Characterizing and controlling product development dynamics - Multi-scale descriptions of collaborative design
- Modeling and simulation of complex manufacturing and product development environments - Computer-aided complex concurrent engineering - Complexity related methodologies in product development monitoring - Game theory, strategic planning and collaborative design
- Concurrent engineering as self-adaptive systems - Evolutionary perspectives to concurrent engineering - Adaptability of collaborative design processes - Vulnerability of collaborative design processes
Authors should email their abstracts or electronic copies (PDF format) of full-length papers to Mark Klein (m_klein@mit.edu). See http://www.ceraj.com/ for formatting guidelines.
Important dates:
Electronic abstract (optional) February 1, 2002 *EXTENDED* Papers due March 15, 2002 Reviews to authors June 15, 2002 Revised papers due to guest editor August 15, 2002 Planned publication date March 2003
Guest editors:
Dan Braha Massachusetts Institute of Technology braha@mit.edu
Mark Klein Massachusetts Institute of Technology m_klein@mit.edu
Yaneer Bar-Yam New England Complex Systems Institute yaneer@necsi.org
Hiroki Sayama New England Complex Systems Institute sayama@necsi.org
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