Designing Complex Systems: Foundations of Design in the Functional Domain

by Erik W. Aslaksen, Paul R. Garvey, Brian E. White

Taking a top-down approach, this volume considers the purpose and basic features of design and how the concept of value can provide a quantitative measure of that wider interaction of the engineered object with its environment. The author examines the domain in which functional design takes place and discusses how the system concept can be embedded in that domain. He proposes a number of functional design elements and develops them in considerable detail, outlining how they can be applied as part of a coherent design framework. His treatment includes many examples and analogies that reinforce the discussions.

176 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 23, 2008