1 INTRODUCTION

DOI: 10.1201/9781003425267-1

1.1 Word Problems, Book Goals, and the Approach Used

The main goal of this book is to enrich large distributed systems with important applications, as well as their management and control technologies, with some higher-level organizational features that can improve their performance, especially in complex situations. The whole world is an extremely complex heterogeneous, distributed, and dynamic system, actually a spatial organism with both body and mentality. The main threats to its well-being and even existence are represented by the UN list [1] covering the following issues.

1.1.1 Climate Change

One of the major problems is linked to the global temperatures that are continuously rising. Studies ...

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