Developing complex engineered systems (CES) poses significant challenges for engineers,
managers, designers, and businesspeople alike due to the inherent complexity of the …

Communication has been shown to affect the design of large-scale complex engineered
systems. Drawing from engineering design, communication, and management literature, this …

Engineering systems design is a dynamic socio-technical process where the social factors,
such as interdisciplinary interactions, and technical factors, such as design interdependence …

This article proposes the solver-aware system architecting framework for leveraging the
combined strengths of experts, crowds and specialists to design innovative complex …

Agent-based models are powerful tools for understanding complex systems. Their accuracy
and capacity for prediction, however, are dependent on the initial conditions of the model …

Abstract Verification and Validation (V&V) of complex systems is a resource-intensive set of
processes constrained by the socio-technical systems enterprises use to implement them …

Agent-based modeling (ABM) is a widely used simulation methodology. The use of ABM in
engineering design continues to grow due to increasing interest in modeling and simulating …

We address the problem of content analysis in text-based engineering design
communication. Existing methods to characterize communication content in engineering …

Knowledge management has become one of the most important challenges in
organizations' pursuit of competitiveness and long-term success. Essential aspects of …

In this dissertation, I introduce and define the concept of networked miscommunication–
unintentional, aggregated effects of communication practices throughout an organization …