Why Can’t Huge Problems be Solved (Anymore)?
Before you start to solve a problem (a numerical problem) you should check its conditioning. An ill-conditioned problem will produceContinue Reading
Category: Engineering
Optimal Does NOT Mean Best
In the second half of the twentieth century it has become very popular to seek optimal solutions to a broadContinue Reading
Can Simulation Technology Really Help Companies Do Business?
For someone who has been doing simulation for the last 30 years it is not easy to say no. LargeContinue Reading
Is it Possible to Make Predictions?
Prediction of the future has always been man’s dream. However, there is an overwhelming amount of physical evidence that thisContinue Reading
The Principle of Fragility
The following equation, which we call the Principle of Fragility, has been coined by Ontonix in early 2005 and indicatesContinue Reading
The 18 Truths About Complexity
A paper copyrighted in 1998, called How Complex Systems Fail and written by an M.D., Dr. Richard Cook, describes 18Continue Reading
A Different Look at Air Traffic
As we have seen in our previous blogs, holistic benchmarking can be applied to a wide class of problems, includingContinue Reading
Optimality: The Recipe for Disaster
There still seems to be a rush towards optimal design. But there is no better way to fragility and vulnerabilityContinue Reading
Crisis Anticipation
Complexity technology establishes a radically innovative means of anticipating crises. Systems under severe stress or on a path to collapseContinue Reading
Solving Extreme Problems
Extreme problems are very large-scale multi-disciplinary problems, involving thousands of variables and which cannot be solved using conventional technology. InContinue Reading
Artificial Intuition 