The INCOSE Vision 2025, “A World in Motion,” traces throughout its narrative the inescapable interaction of systems engineering with “social systems.” It advocates the expansion of systems engineering involvement into such systems. It even lists, “Applying systems engineering to help shape policy related to social and natural systems” as one …

“The only difference between a mob and a trained army is organization” – Calvin Coolidge Have you ever come across a model that was more of a mob than useful tool? I have! Systems Engineering is partly an effort in organizing your systems information and concepts in a way that …

In modeling a behavior, we often need to represent a selection logic controlled by a set of stimuli.  How we do it correctly and sufficiently lies within how well we understand the Executable Constructs. Let us take a look at the behavior of automobile traffic at an intersection controlled by …

Complexity, artificial intelligence, emergent behavior, systems of systems . . . these are a few of the factors that are making problems and solutions both more interesting and more vexing for today’s systems engineer. In the problem space, systems that we have thought of as merely complicated are now being …