Complexity perspective and engineering systems-novel approaches

Abstract

Systems perspective is nowadays expanded to complexity perspective, by including aspects of disorder, instability nonlinearity, unpredictability, and it is widely applied to different disciplines. The purpose of this paper is to contribut to engineering systems theory by observing projects as complex adaptive systems (CAS). Complexity theory could giv some insights in the way organizations interact, relate, and evolve within their environment. Authors of this paper use literature review as a methodological approach, and focused on structural and dynamic complexity of systems. There is need for understanding complex systems with numerous techniques and algorithms necessary for an engineer to operat in complex and dynamic environments (e.g. production and manufacturing). Implications of this paper could be used a a basis for further research that copes with complexity of CAS, as well as in bridging complexity concepts and manageria reality.