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Systemic Elegance: Clarifying Complexity and Emergence for Engineering Practice 系统优雅：澄清工程实践的复杂性和突发性
IF 1 4区 工程技术
Insight Pub Date : 2025-09-12 DOI: 10.1002/inst.12553
Gary Smith
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Systems Engineering: The Journal of The International Council on Systems Engineering 系统工程：国际系统工程理事会期刊
IF 1 4区 工程技术
Insight Pub Date : 2025-09-12 DOI: 10.1002/inst.12560
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Bursting the Bubble of Complexity: Reflections on the activities of the INCOSE Complex Systems Working Group (CSWG) 打破复杂的泡沫：对INCOSE复杂系统工作组（CSWG）活动的反思
IF 1 4区 工程技术
Insight Pub Date : 2025-09-12 DOI: 10.1002/inst.12551
Dean Beale, Rudolph Oosthuizen, Dorothy McKinney, Francesco Dazzi, Joshua Sutherland
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Elegance and Complexity 优雅与复杂
IF 1 4区 工程技术
Insight Pub Date : 2025-09-12 DOI: 10.1002/inst.12550
Michael D. Watson, Andrew T. Fried
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The Purposeful Evolution of Systems Engineering Heuristics Using I-SHARE 使用I-SHARE的系统工程启发式的有目的进化
IF 1 4区 工程技术
Insight Pub Date : 2025-09-12 DOI: 10.1002/inst.12554
Javier Calvo-Amodio, Harington Lee, Veronika Shteingardt, Dorothy McKinney, Dov Dori
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Principles for Minimizing Unintended Consequences 最小化意外后果的原则
IF 1 4区 工程技术
Insight Pub Date : 2025-09-12 DOI: 10.1002/inst.12556
David Rousseau, Julie Billingham
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Elegant Solutions to Complex Problems – Case Studies and Examples 优雅的解决方案，以复杂的问题-个案研究和例子
IF 1 4区 工程技术
Insight Pub Date : 2025-09-12 DOI: 10.1002/inst.12557
Joshua Sutherland, Alfonso Lanza, Francesco Dazzi, Ken Cureton, Chandru Mirchandani
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Complexity Definitions Guidance in Systems Engineering 系统工程中的复杂性定义指南
IF 1 4区 工程技术
Insight Pub Date : 2025-09-12 DOI: 10.1002/inst.12549
Francesco Dazzi, Joshua Sutherland, Gary Smith, Alfonso Lanza, Ken Cureton, Dean Beale
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引用次数: 0
Elegant Solutions to Complex Problems – Perspectives and Practice 复杂问题的优雅解决方案-观点和实践
IF 1 4区 工程技术
Insight Pub Date : 2025-09-12 DOI: 10.1002/inst.12559
Joshua Sutherland, Alfonso Lanza, Kristin Giammarco, Michael Pennotti, Dov Dori, Louise Harney
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On the Meaning, Purpose, and Value of Systems Engineering 论系统工程的意义、目的和价值
IF 1 4区 工程技术
Insight Pub Date : 2025-09-12 DOI: 10.1002/inst.12555
Michael Pennotti, David Rousseau, Peter Brook, Javier Calvo-Amodio
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