Title
Complex/Harmonious System Engineering Viewed in the Light of General Systems Theory
Abstract
In recent years, much discussion of “Complex systems” has been made in various research fields. As my main research area is the complex/harmonious systems engineering, I have, on many occasions, been asked to explain it by those who are interested in this area. When encountering such a seemingly straightforward question, it is not always easy to give a simple answer. Although some indicate that “It is important to define the basic concepts, however, it could turn out to be just playing with words if not done properly”, it is still important to consider the philosophy behind the complex/harmonious systems. Thus in this paper, the main ideas of the complex and harmonious systems are summarized based on the past literature, and then the concept of the complex/harmonious systems is clarified based on the discussion of systems from the general systems theory. It has been ten years since the Laboratory of The Harmonious Systems Engineering at the Graduate School of Engineering of Hokkaido University was established. Activities of the Laboratory show how the complex/harmonious systems engineering can apply to solve for problems in various fields. The following topics will be presented: 1.  Complex Harmonious Systems Technology 2.  DNA computing 3.  Multiagent systems 4.  Autonomous Flying Blip 5.  Medical informatics 6.  Tourism informatics
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1007/3-540-32391-0_7
Soft Computing as Transdisciplinary Science and Technology
Keywords
Field
DocType
complex system,system engineering,dna computing,general systems theory
Complex system,System of systems engineering,Systems theory,Systems engineering,Computer science,System of systems
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1615-3871
0
0.34
References 
Authors
1
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Azuma Ohuchi138668.99