Toward Solving Complex Human Problems

Evolution of Practice — Theory of Complex Adaptive Systems Engineering

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“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking that we used when we created them.”

— Albert Einstein, quoted in CityLab.com [re: complexity]

— (The Week, 20 April 2018, p. 17)

Introduction

A generally accepted theory of complex adaptive systems engineering (CASE) still does not exist despite decades of effort by protagonists, e.g., Yaneer Bar-Yam [1] and various systems engineering (SE) practitioners [2–11]. Those of us deeply immersed in advancing CASE have come to realize that its practice must continue to evolve for a while yet. This is evidenced from many case studies [12] that illuminate how we are still learning about complex adaptive systems. This ...