Advances in Complex Societal, Environmental and Engineered Systems

This book addresses recent technological progress that has led to an increased complexity in many natural and artificial systems. The resulting complexity research due to the emergence of new properties and spatio-temporal interactions among a large number of system elements - and between the system and its environment - is the primary focus of this text.This volume is divided into three parts: Part one focuses on societal and ecological systems, Part two deals with approaches for understanding, modeling, predicting and mastering socio-technical systems, and Part three includes real-life examples. Each chapter has its own special features; it is a self-contained contribution of distinguished experts working on different fields of science and technology relevant to the study of complex systems. Advances in Complex Systems of Contemporary Reality: Societal, Environmental and Engineered Systems will provide postgraduate students, researchers and managers with qualitative and quantitative methods for handling the many features of complex contemporary reality.

Mohamed Nemiche is President of the Moroccan Society of Complex Systems and Professor at the University of Ibn Zohr University in Agadir. His expertise is in Computer Science, Mathematics, and Social Sciences.Mohamed Essaaidi is the Director of the National College of IT, ENSIAS in Rabat. He is also the Chair of the IEEE Morocco Section.