期刊名称：Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales
印刷版ISSN：0035-9173
出版年度：2019
卷号：152
期号：1
页码：105-114
语种：English
出版社：The Society
摘要：We explore several opportunities created by a new approach to science, engineering and management: complex systems. By distinguishing between complex and complicated systems, we reflect on different design approaches, and discuss the advantages offered by guided self-organisation. Pointing out that several modern challenges are characterised by critical dynamics, cascading failures and non-trivial information flows, we attempt to highlight the importance of cross-disciplinary quantitative methods,.
