A Multi Scale Definition of a System
August 2006
M. L. Kuras, The MITRE Corporation
ABSTRACT
The notion of a system, although central to system engineering, is very loosely defined.
In order to understand and reach beyond the limits of "traditional" system engineering, an
improved definition of a system is required. Such a definition has to be able to capture
the multi scale aspect of systems; it has to capture the substantive, the structural and the
dynamic aspects of systems; and it has to acknowledge the unavoidable entanglement of
the subjectivity and objectivity in the human conceptualization of systems. Such a
definition underpins the analytic and synthetic aspects of complex-system engineering
and is presented in this paper.
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