dc.contributor.author | Broniatowski, David A. | |
dc.contributor.author | Moses, Joel | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-06-06T20:32:36Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-06-06T20:32:36Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014-03 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/103003 | |
dc.description.abstract | System structure is a key determinant of system behavior. There is a particularly strong link between a system’s structure and its flexibility – it’s capacity to respond to changes. Often, adding flexibility entails adding complexity. In this paper, we propose measures for a system’s complexity that are complementary to existing flexibility measures. Furthermore, flexibility often comes at the cost of some measure of control over the system’s behavior. We therefore propose a metric for system controllability that is complementary to our flexibility metric. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | ESD Working Papers;ESD-WP-2014-11 | |
dc.title | Flexibility, Complexity, and Controllability in Large Scale Systems | en_US |
dc.type | Working Paper | en_US |