European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering - 14, Volume 18
Subtitle: 37th European Symposium of the Working Party on Computer-Aided Process Engineering (Computer Aided Chemical Engineering)
Contributors: Ana Paula Barbosa-Póvoa (Editor); Henrique Matos (Editor)
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Published: May 14, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1200
ISBN-13: 9780444516947
First sentence: The systems engineering approach seems to have had its origins in the 1940's in the efforts to exploit the possibilities of the newly invented electronic digital computers, which held out the promise that, if a problem could be precisely formulated, then in principle an algorithm could be developed to solve it, and hence implemented and solved on a computer without the need for further human intervention or expertise.