Predictive algorithm for sustainable system architecture

Every system, however big or small, is always a part of a bigger system and in turn consists of a number of smaller subsystems. This is true for both technical and natural systems, including biological, ecological and social. The discipline of Systems Architecture teaches that to be successful, any complex technical system has to take into account this system hierarchy as well as interdependency and interaction between the components of the system on each level. The principles of Systems Architecture: modularity, cohesion, scalability, evolvability and others are universal, but there is hardly a more important and more challenging area where they need to be applied than the area of sustainability and sustainable development. In recent years, issues of pollution, global warming, rising energy costs, natural and human-induced disasters, and other environmental and economic problems are becoming of more concern than ever. Problems such as this can be solved only with a system approach to sustainable development. An interesting consequence of applying the principles of Systems Architecture to sustainable development is the conclusion that the system itself must be sustainable. This paper presents an approach to sustainable system architecture, using a predictive algorithm based on a specific example of a building-integrated energy control system.