Flexibility, Complexity, and Controllability in Large Scale Systems
System structure is a key determinant of system behavior. There is a particularly strong link between a system’s structure and its flexibility – it’s capacity to respond to changes. Often, adding flexibility entails adding complexity. In this paper, we propose measures for a system’s complexity that...
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| author | Broniatowski, David A. Moses, Joel |
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| description | System structure is a key determinant of system behavior. There is a particularly strong link between a system’s structure and its flexibility – it’s capacity to respond to changes. Often, adding flexibility entails adding complexity. In this paper, we propose measures for a system’s complexity that are complementary to existing flexibility measures. Furthermore, flexibility often comes at the cost of some measure of control over the system’s behavior. We therefore propose a metric for system controllability that is complementary to our flexibility metric. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1030032019-04-10T09:29:31Z Flexibility, Complexity, and Controllability in Large Scale Systems Broniatowski, David A. Moses, Joel System structure is a key determinant of system behavior. There is a particularly strong link between a system’s structure and its flexibility – it’s capacity to respond to changes. Often, adding flexibility entails adding complexity. In this paper, we propose measures for a system’s complexity that are complementary to existing flexibility measures. Furthermore, flexibility often comes at the cost of some measure of control over the system’s behavior. We therefore propose a metric for system controllability that is complementary to our flexibility metric. 2016-06-06T20:32:36Z 2016-06-06T20:32:36Z 2014-03 Working Paper http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/103003 en_US ESD Working Papers;ESD-WP-2014-11 application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division |
| spellingShingle | Broniatowski, David A. Moses, Joel Flexibility, Complexity, and Controllability in Large Scale Systems |
| title | Flexibility, Complexity, and Controllability in Large Scale Systems |
| title_full | Flexibility, Complexity, and Controllability in Large Scale Systems |
| title_fullStr | Flexibility, Complexity, and Controllability in Large Scale Systems |
| title_full_unstemmed | Flexibility, Complexity, and Controllability in Large Scale Systems |
| title_short | Flexibility, Complexity, and Controllability in Large Scale Systems |
| title_sort | flexibility complexity and controllability in large scale systems |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/103003 |
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