Authors : Salim Bitam and Mohamed Chawki Batouche
Abstract: This paper proposes a new method to study the complex system design in any domain. Complex systems are new approaches in artificial intelligence. The old techniques of artificial intelligence are considered inadequate to this type of system. This inadequacy is related to the complex systems properties: non-linearity, emergence of an unforeseeable behavior, self-organization, adaptation, irreducibility and innovation. Into consequece, it is very important to propose a new method, which organizes the design. We propose a new methodology that helps the designer to study well the complex systems, in order to put this system under a formal format. Thereafter, the designer deals with the validation, the good conformity of the conceived system and finally, he translates the system by using the existing software tools (programming languages etc). We limited the design into six phases: analysis, logical design (modeling and specification), validation, tests of conformity, implementation and use/simulation. We can call this methodology complex system engineering. In this article, we discuss also atechnique, which we consider as one of the best for the phase : Complex system modeling. It is the complex system modeling in the base of multi-agent systems. The other phases are left as prospects.
Salim Bitam and Mohamed Chawki Batouche , 2006. Complex System Engineering. Asian Journal of Information Technology, 5: 465-469.