From aeronautics and manufacturing to healthcare and disaster management, systems engineering (SE) now focuses on designing applications that ensure performance optimization, robustness, and reliabili
The book examines the nature of emergence in context of man-made (i.e. engineered) systems, in general, and system of systems engineering problems. It investigates emergence from a modeling and simula
This book is the proceedings of the 3rd World Conference on Soft Computing (WCSC), which was held in San Antonio, TX, USA, on December 16-18, 2013. It presents start-of-the-art theory and applications
