Talk:Derek Hitchins

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System of Systems

A system according to Hitchins is "an open set of complementary, interacting parts with properties, capabilities and behaviours of the whole set emerging both from the parts and from their interactions."

A system on a higher level can contain other systems. So the term “system of systems” could apply at any level. Or, conversely, at any level we care to choose we can perceive systems, contained subsystems and containing super-systems. ^[1]

This section is removed for the following reasons, stated by GRMat158 (talk) 14:57, 30 April 2008 (UTC) on the User talk:Mdd page:[reply]

The paragraphs on system of systems within Derek Hitchins' page do not, I think, convey the fact that Derek (in the paper referenced) does not advocate the use of the the term - on the contrary, he sees it as a tautology in that every system can be a system-of-systems and vice-versa. He also points out in the paper that there are dangers in adopting the terminology simply because of the inherent reductionist tendency when you term anything as comprising other things - thus the term could be deemed to be contrary to a holistic or systems approach.

-- Mdd (talk) 22:04, 6 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ 2003, What’s in a System-of-Systems?, paper.

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Due to possible violation of copyright, see WP:Copyvio, I have removed the worksection of this article for now. -- Marcel Douwe Dekker (talk) 08:54, 10 October 2009 (UTC) P.S. I apologize for all inconvenience I have caused here, see also here. If you would like to assist in improving this article, please let me know. I can use all the help I can get. Thank you.[reply]

[1] 2003, What’s in a System-of-Systems?, paper.

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