Provides a comprehensive overview and introduction to the concepts,
methodologies, analysis, design and applications of metasynthetic
computing and engineering. The author: - Presents an overview of complex
systems, especially open complex giant systems such as the Internet,
complex behavioural and social problems, and actionable knowledge
discovery and delivery in the big data era. - Discusses ubiquitous
intelligence in complex systems, including human intelligence, domain
intelligence, social intelligence, network intelligence, data
intelligence and machine intelligence, and their synergy through
metasynthetic engineering. - Explains the concept and methodology of
human-centred, human-machine-cooperated qualitative-to-quantitative
metasynthesis for understanding and managing open complex giant systems,
and its computing approach: metasynthetic computing. - Introduces
techniques and tools for analysing and designing problem-solving systems
for open complex problems and systems. Metasynthetic Computing and
Engineering uses the systematology methodology in addressing system
complexities in open complex giant systems, for which it may not only be
effective to apply reductionism or holism. The book aims to encourage
and inspire discussions, design, implementation and reflection of
effective methodologies and tools for computing and engineering open
complex systems and problems. Researchers, research students and
practitioners in complex systems, artificial intelligence, data science,
computer science, and even system science, cognitive science, behaviour
science, and social science, will find this book invaluable.
