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EM.413 Eric Rebentisch System Engineering meeting
Complexity
Complexity correlates with cost
Typical measures
parts count
source lines of code or function calls
information content
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should actually be Technical Simplicity
Mentions the difference between Technical Simplicity vs Interfacial Simplicity
Dimensions of complexity in system development
functional
Technical Simplicity
McCabe graph theoretic structure
Shannon Entropy
Gutman Graph Energy
structural
organizational
homomorphic forces between structural and organizational?
complex vs complicated
funny to hear both these brought up
I guess I would say complicated sounds like “someone added complexity, hence they complicated it”.
is there a difference between functional complexity and structural complexity?
We haven’t gotten this to a science yet
Complexity vs modularity as a tradespace
Modular Design
Topology
understand the role of System Architecture on overall complexity