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born 1935 United Kingdom
Derek K. Hitchins (born 1935) is a British systems engineer and was professor in engineering management, in command & control and in systems science at Cranfield University at Cranfield, Bedfordshire, England.
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System engineering is the art and science of creating effective systems, using whole system, whole life principles.
Derek Hitchins (1995)
There seem to be two fundamental schisms in thinking: the hard/soft and the open/closed.
Putting systems to work (1992)
The real world is made from open, interacting systems, behaving chaotically.
D.K. Hitchins (2000)
For continued system cohesion, the mean rate of system adaptation must equal or exceed the mean rate of change of environment.
Putting systems to work (1992)
System engineering is the art and science of creating optimal solution systems to complex issues and problems.
The Holy Grail of systems engineering, a generic systems methodology has been the subject of the author’s ongoing research for over 20 years.
Derek K Hitchins (2005)
Architecture is defined as the art and science of creating buildings. Systems engineering may be similarly defined as the art and science of creating systems.
Advanced Systems Thinking, Engineering and Management (2003)
A system is an open set of complementary, interacting parts, with properties, capabilities and behaviours of the set emerging both from the parts and from their interactions to synthesize a unified whole.
Emergence is the phenomenon of properties, capabilities and behaviours evident in the whole system that are not exclusively ascribable to any of its parts. Classic examples of emergence include: self awareness from the human brain; the pungent smell of ammonia emerging from two colorless, odorless gases-nitrogen and hydrogen; and so on.
Advanced Systems Thinking, Engineering and Management (2003)
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