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that determine the behaviour and performance of JCSs; and last but not least
how to design JCSs that work. That will, indeed, be the focus of a second
book by the same authors, which tentatively is entitled Joint Cognitive
systems: Patterns in Cognitive Systems Engineering.
CSE is not the first attempt to describe how humans cope with the
complexity and unpredictability of their environment, nor will it be the last.
We do believe that it offers a useful way of approaching these issues, and that
it has the virtue of striving to be as simple as possible, in agreement with the
tenets of the Law of Parsimony. For CSE this has the double meaning that it
applies to the solutions ...