The Impact of Instability on Complex Social and Technical Systems

Instability is a pervasive phenomenon that has deep implications for virtually all complex social and technical systems. In engineering, the identification and mitigation of various types of technical instabilities is a well developed practice. This is a key focus, for example, of engineers concern...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Joel, Rebentisch, Eric
Format: Working Paper
Language:en_US
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/102749