Emergent Behavior in Complex Systems Engineering

SAURABH MITTAL, PhD, is Lead Systems Engineer/Scientist at MITRE Corporation, USA. He is also affiliated with Dunip Technologies, LLC, USA and Society of Modeling Simulation International, USA. He is a recipient of US Department of Defense's highest civilian contractor recognition: Golden Eagle. He has co-authored over eighty articles including two books: Netcentric System of Systems Engineering with DEVS Unified Process (CRC Press 2013) and Guide to Simulation-based Disciplines: Advancing our Computational Future (Springer 2017). SAIKOU DIALLO, PhD, is a Research Associate Professor at Old Dominion University's Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center. Dr. Diallo has studied the concepts of interoperability of simulations and composability of models for over ten years. He is the Vice President in charge of conferences and a member of the Board of Directors for the Society for Modeling and Simulation International (SCS). Dr. Diallo has over one hundred publications in peer-reviewed conferences, journals and books. ANDREAS TOLK, PhD, is Division Technology Integrator at The MITRE Corporation and Adjunct Professor at the Old Dominion University. He is a Fellow of the Society for Modeling and Simulation. He published several books on systems engineering and modeling and simulation topics, among them: Engineering Principles of Combat Modeling and Distributed Simulation (Wiley 2012), Modeling and Simulation Support for System of Systems Engineering Applications (Wiley 2015), and The Profession of Modeling and Simulation (Wiley 2017).

• FOREWORD xPREFACE xiiiABOUT THE EDITORS xviLIST OF CONTRIBUTORS xviiiSECTION I EMERGENT BEHAVIOR IN COMPLEX SYSTEMS 11 Metaphysical and Scientific Accounts of Emergence: Varieties of Fundamentality and Theoretical Completeness 3John Symons2 Emergence: What does it mean and How is it Relevant to Computer Engineering? 21Wesley J. Wildman and F. LeRon Shults3 System Theoretic Foundations for Emergent Behavior Modeling: The Case of Emergence of Human Language in a Resource-Constrained Complex Intelligent Dynamical System 35Bernard P. Zeigler and Saurabh Mittal4 Generative Parallax Simulation: Creative Cognition Models of Emergence for Simulation-Driven Model Discovery 59Levent YilmazSECTION II EMERGENT BEHAVIOR MODELING IN COMPLEX SYSTEMS ENGINEERING 775 Complex Systems Engineering and the Challenge of Emergence 79Andreas Tolk, Saikou Diallo, and Saurabh Mittal6 Emergence in Complex Enterprises 99William B. Rouse7 Emergence in Information Economies: An Agent-Based Modeling Perspective 129Erika Frydenlund and David C. Earnest8 Modeling Emergence in Systems of Systems using Thermodynamic Concepts 149John J. Johnson IV, Jose J. Padilla, and Andres Sousa-Poza9 Induced Emergence in Computational Social Systems Engineering: Multimodels and Dynamic Couplings as Methodological Basis 171Tuncer Ören, Saurabh Mittal, and Umut Durak10 Applied Complexity Science: Enabling Emergence through Heuristics and Simulations 201Michael D. Norman, Matthew T.K. Koehler, and Robert PitskoSECTION III ENGINEERING EMERGENT BEHAVIOR IN COMPUTATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS 22711 Toward the Automated Detection of Emergent Behavior 229Claudia Szabo and Lachlan Birdsey12 Isolating the Causes of Emergent Failures in Computer Software 263Ross Gore13 From Modularity to Complexity: A Cross-Disciplinary Framework for Characterizing Systems 285Chih-Chun Chen and Nathan Crilly14 The Emergence of Social Schemas and Lossy Conceptual Information Networks: How Information Transmission can lead to the Apparent "Emergence" of Culture 321Justin E. Lane15 Modeling and Simulation of Emergent Behavior in Transportation Infrastructure Restoration 349Akhilesh Ojha, Steven Corns, Tom Shoberg, Ruwen Qin, and Suzanna LongSECTION IV RESEARCH AGENDA 36916 Research Agenda for Next-Generation Complex Systems Engineering 371Saikou Diallo, Saurabh Mittal, and Andreas TolkINDEX 391