Social systems engineering : the design of complexity / by Cesar García-Díaz, Camilo Olaya.

Includes index.

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""Title Page ""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Contents""; ""List of Contributors""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction: The Why, What and How of Social Systems Engineering""; ""The Very Idea""; ""Epistemic Notions on the Engineering of Social Systems""; ""Using Engineering Methods""; ""Into Real-World Applications ""; ""References""; ""Part 1 Social Systems Engineering: The Very Idea""; ""Chapter 1 Compromised Exactness and the Rationality of Engineering""; ""1.1 Introduction""; ""1.2 The Historical Context""; ""1.3 Science and Engineering: Distinctive Rationalities""

""1.4 â#x80;#x98;Compromised Exactnessâ#x80;#x99;: Design in Engineering""""1.5 Engineering Social Systems?""; ""References""; ""Chapter 2 Uncertainty in the Design and Maintenance of Social Systems""; ""2.1 Introduction""; ""2.2 Uncertainties in Simple and Complicated Engineered Systems""; ""2.3 Control Volume and Uncertainty""; ""2.4 Engineering Analysis and Uncertainty in Complex Systems""; ""2.5 Uncertainty in Social Systems Engineering""; ""2.6 Conclusions""; ""References""; ""Chapter 3 System Farming""; ""3.1 Introduction""; ""3.2 Uncertainty, Complexity and Emergence""

""3.2.1 The Double Complexity of CSS""""3.3 Science and Engineering Approaches""; ""3.3.1 The Impossibility of a Purely Design-Based Engineering Approach to CSS ""; ""3.3.2 Design vs. Adaptation""; ""3.3.3 The Necessity of Strongly Validated Foundations for Design-Based Approaches ""; ""3.4 Responses to CSS Complexity""; ""3.4.1 Formal Methods""; ""3.4.2 Statistical Approaches""; ""3.4.3 Self-adaptive and Adaptive Systems ""; ""3.4.4 Participatory Approaches and Rapid Prototyping""; ""3.5 Towards Farming Systems""

""3.5.1 Reliability from Experience Rather Than Control of Construction""""3.5.2 Post-Construction Care Rather Than Prior Effort ""; ""3.5.3 Continual Tinkering Rather Than One-Off Effort ""; ""3.5.4 Multiple Fallible Mechanisms Rather Than One Reliable Mechanism""; ""3.5.5 Monitoring Rather Than Prediction""; ""3.5.6 Disaster Aversion Rather Than Optimizing Performance""; ""3.5.7 Partial Rather Than Full Understanding""; ""3.5.8 Specific Rather Than Abstract Modelling""; ""3.5.9 Many Models Rather Than One""; ""3.5.10 A Community Rather Than Individual Effort""; ""3.6 Conclusion""