Large Scale Systems: The Commonality and Diversity. Report on a Workshop Held at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, April 25-27, 1979

摘要

Results are presented of a workshop held to study ongoing research activities in large-scale systems engineering and to expand communications in the field. The workshop participants were charged with: (1) delineating the various research topics within the large-scale systems areas; (2) outlining possible directions for future research; and (3) recommending methods for furthering cooperation among the various research activities. There was a consensus that the research topics within the large-scale systems area should be divided into two categories: areas of application, including circuits, control, industrial systems, and networks; and large-scale systems engineering methodology, including computational problems such as optimization, simulation, and complexity theory and, modeling, including structural modeling, macro- and micro-modeling, and system decomposition. Research on numerical methods and on the impact of vector and parallel processing on the large-scale systems problem was recommended.