Derek Hitchins

"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 wh…"

"The motives for conceiving modern systems engineering are to be found, at least in part, in past disasters. Arthur D. Hall III cites: the chemical plant leakage in Bhopal ; the explosion of the NASA C…"

"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 …"

"The Holy Grail of systems engineering, a generic systems methodology has been the subject of the author’s ongoing research for over 20 years."

"System engineering is the art and science of creating effective systems, using whole system, whole life principles."

"“The term is being applied to the creation of new systems by bringing together existing operational systems under a single umbrella and, presumably, creating or adapting links and interactions between…"

"The world about us can be looked at in a variety of ways. One way is to see the world as made up from many interacting systems: weather, societal, economic, ecological, floral, faunal, tectonic plate,…"

"Emergence is not really mysterious, although it may be complex. Emergence is brought about by the interactions between the parts of a system. The galloping horse illusion depends upon the persistence …"