An innovative tutorial on large complex systems
As an innovative tutorial, this paper conducts a comprehensive investigation into the conceptualism and methodology of large complex systems (LCS). Firstly, in the conceptualism of LCS, intrinsic attributes of LCS are identified, a human/machine unified epistemology is proposed for LCS, a taxonomy of LCS is developed, and the evolution of control synthesis from continuous-variate real-time control systems to LCS is derived. Furthermore, in the methodology of LCS, the problem of macrostructural modelization of LCS is formulated, and a description based model is proposed and established for LCS. Finally, a unified framework based analysis is presented on three typical examples of LCS to generally illustrate the conceptualism and methodology of LCS.
large complex system macrostructural modelization autonomous system complex software system nested system perception-decision link