Print Email Facebook Twitter New Methods for Analysis of Systems-of-Systems and Policy: The Power of Systems Theory, Crowd Sourcing and Data Management Title New Methods for Analysis of Systems-of-Systems and Policy: The Power of Systems Theory, Crowd Sourcing and Data Management Author Chmieliauskas, A. Chappin, E.J.L. Davis, C.B. Nikolic, I. Dijkema, G.P.J. Faculty Technology, Policy and Management Department Infrastructures, Systems and Services Date 2012-03-31 Abstract Our world is a complex socio-technical system-of-systems (Chappin & Dijkema, 2007; Nikolic, 2009). Embedded within the geological, chemical and biological planetary context, the physical infrastructures, such as power grids or transport networks span the globe with energy and material flows. Social networks in the form of global commerce and the Internet blanket the planet in information flows. While parts of these global social and technical systems have been consciously engineered and managed, the overall system-of-systems (SoS) is emergent: it has no central coordinator or manager. The emergence of this socio-technical SoS has not been without consequences: the human species is currently facing a series of global challenges, such as resource depletion, environmental pollution and climate change. Tackling these issues requires active policy and management of those socio-technical SoS. But how are we to design policies if policy makers and managers have a limited span of control over small parts of the global system of systems? To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:40c802cc-7536-4de1-88b1-7726483402e3 DOI https://doi.org/10.5772/28796 Publisher InTech ISBN 978-953-51-0101-7 Source http://www.intechopen.com/books/system-of-systems/new-methods-for-analysis-of-systems-of-systems-and-policy-the-power-of-system-theory-crowd-sourcing Source System of Systems Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type book chapter Rights (c) 2012 Creative Commons BY Files PDF InTech-New_methods_for_an ... of_....pdf 284.92 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:40c802cc-7536-4de1-88b1-7726483402e3/datastream/OBJ/view