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Boundary Discovery in Complex Systems

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Author(s)

Eric D. Simmon, Joseph Chalfoun, Arthur Griesser

Abstract

Many of today’s extremely complex meta-systems are cross-domain, they require development by multiple stakeholder groups with different goals each implementing a sub-set of the functionality required for the entire meta-system to operate. As these systems become more complex it becomes more difficult to understand how the sub-systems fit together into the whole. This paper investigates leveraging stakeholder use cases by quantifying the similarities between the use case documents and using clustering algorithms to help understand sub system boundaries.
Proceedings Title
Proceedings of the 19th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering
Conference Dates
September 3-7, 2012
Conference Location
Trier
Conference Title
19th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering

Keywords

complex systems, clustering, use cases, normalized compression distance

Citation

Simmon, E. , Chalfoun, J. and Griesser, A. (2012), Boundary Discovery in Complex Systems, Proceedings of the 19th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering, Trier, -1 (Accessed October 31, 2024)

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Created September 5, 2012, Updated February 19, 2017