Toward Solving Complex Human Problems

Prologue

We hope this book will help all concerned to deepen our understanding of systems engineering (SE) and better prepare us for future SE endeavors. Here we to illuminate various kinds of complex systems (CSs) and suggest learning methods that better serve us in how to recognize CSs and engineer them more effectively. SE activity in System of Systems (SoS), Enterprise Systems Engineering (ESE), and Complex Systems Engineering (CSE) continues to increase. Admittedly, there is still some controversy as to how well conventional methods of SE are able to handle our most difficult CS problems and whether new ways of “systems thinking” will help. We trust that many readers will agree that the answer to the latter portion of this issue is in the ...