Title :
Characterizing complexity in the design of human-integrated systems
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Ind. & Syst. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA
Abstract :
System complexity increases as technologies evolve. An understanding of the evolution of complexity can offer insights and help develop guidelines for designing the levels and details of automation, and for allocating functions among intelligent agents. The goal is to be able to manage complexity by design. The author discusses efforts to understand and characterize complexity in terms of taxonomies adapted from evolutionary biology and solar equivalent of energy proposed by H.T. Odum (1988).
Keywords :
computational complexity; interactive systems; man-machine systems; software agents; user modelling; complexity; evolutionary biology; function allocation; human-integrated systems design; intelligent agents; solar equivalent; system complexity; taxonomies; Automation; Cultural differences; Evolution (biology); Global communication; Guidelines; Humans; Isolation technology; Management training; Social implications of technology; Systems engineering and theory;
Conference_Titel :
Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1998. 1998 IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4778-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICSMC.1998.725544
