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
Category: Engineering
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
