Overview
- Covers an emerging field to enhance capabilities to deal with complex systems/problems
- Explores complex system communication control integration and coordination to improve performance
- Provides vignettes and examples to demonstrate the practical application and utility for practitioners
Part of the book series: Topics in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality (TSRQ, volume 40)
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This book explores Complex System Governance (CSG)—an emerging field concerned with the design, execution, and evolution of essential functions necessary to ensure continued viability of a system. The book focuses on three primary development areas to better understand and utilize current developments CSG. First, the conceptual foundations for CSG are developed, from systems theory, management cybernetics, and governance. Second, a set of critical CSG topics are examined from conceptual as well as practice perspectives. Third, several development and application issues are discussed. Ultimately, CSG is positioned as an emerging field with strong theoretical grounding and significant implications for improving practices and performance to better address complex systems and their problems.
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Keywords
- Systems Theory
- Systems Engineering
- System Governance
- Complex Systems
- Engineering Management
- Management Cybernetics
- System of Systems Engineering
- Complex System Governance
- Complexity
- Systems Thinking
- System Leadership
- Environmental Scanning
- Communications
- Systems Theory
- Systems Intervention
- System Performance Measurement
Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Polinpapilinho F. Katina currently serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Informatics and Engineering Systems at the University of South Carolina Upstate (Spartanburg, South Carolina). He holds B.S. in Engineering Technology, M.Eng. in Systems Engineering and a Ph.D. in Engineering Management and Systems Engineering, all from Old Dominion University (Norfolk, Virginia). Dr. Katina focuses on teaching and research in areas of Complex System Governance, Critical Infrastructures, Engineering Management, Infranomics, Manufacturing Systems, System of Systems, and Systems Pathology. His activities have spanned a variety of organizations, including Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (Daytona Beach, FL), Politecnico di Milano (Milan, Italy), Syracuse University (Syracuse, NY), University of Alabama in Huntsville (Huntsville, AL), University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, UK), and UNSW University College (Canberra, Australia).
Charles W. Chesterman Jr. is a senior technical program manager at CACI Inc. Prior to joining CACI, Dr. Chesterman served in the United States Navy in several capacities, including Surface Warfare Officer and an Engineering Duty Officer. He holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from United States Naval Academy (Annapolis, Maryland), M.S. Mechanical Engineering from U.S. Naval Postgraduate School (Monterey, California) and a Ph.D. in Engineering Management and Systems Engineering from Old Dominion University (Norfolk, Virginia). Dr. Chersterman focuses on teaching and research in areas of Complex System Governance, Communications in Complex Situations, and Product Lifecycle Management. He continues to support the Navy as a contractor working in the area of maritime maintenance, specifically on the design, development, and deployment of product life cycle management (PLM) applications.
James C. Pyne is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of the Engineering Management and System Engineering and a Research Affiliate of NCSOSE at Old Dominion University (Norfolk, Virginia). He was previously employed at Hampton Roads Sanitation District (Virginia Beach, Virginia), first as a Plant Manager followed by Chief of Design, then Chief of Small Communities. Dr. Pyne holds B.S. in Civil Engineering from Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, Virginia), M.S. in Engineering Administration from George Washington University (Washington, D.C.), and Ph.D. in Engineering Management and Systems Engineering from Old Dominion University (Norfolk, Virginia). He has more than 36 years of experience in wastewater management at the technical, managerial and policy levels. His expertise includes Sociotechnical Systems and Complex Systems Analysis. In his role as the HRSD chief of small communities, he has used this knowledge to assist numerous and various stakeholders deal with complex issues.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Complex System Governance
Book Subtitle: Theory and Practice
Editors: Charles B. Keating, Polinpapilinho F. Katina, Charles W. Chesterman Jr., James C. Pyne
Series Title: Topics in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93852-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-93851-2Published: 19 April 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-93854-3Published: 20 April 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-93852-9Published: 18 April 2022
Series ISSN: 1566-0443
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0285
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 584
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 102 illustrations in colour
Topics: Complex Systems, Computer Hardware, Statistics for Business, Management, Economics, Finance, Insurance