The BOXES Methodology: Black Box Dynamic Control

by David W. Russell

The BOXES Methodology consists of an introduction and a summary/conclusions together with four sections organised as follows. * The BOXES Algorithm is a history and summary of the method and contains references to research workers worldwide who have studied, or who are studying, the method and its relevance in modern control. * Principles of Systems Engineering is an overview of systems engineering and its place in the design of real-time software systems. * Collected Works by the Author highlights the author's original work and includes sections on potential flaws in the system and how they can be mitigated. * Futures and Self Organization outlines some recent research into how the structure of the method can be made self-organizing, thus eliminating much of the a priori system knowledge currently needed for the method to be possible.

248 pages, Paperback

First published March 12, 2012

About the author

David W. Russell is a bilingual business consultant who has enjoyed a long-term love affair with Japan since his college days. After working in Tokyo for two decades, he returned to live in the U.S., but still divides his time between his home in New York City and his “sanity retreat” close to Mt. Fuji.