Applying System Thinking to Learn from Accident of Modern Automatic Control Systems

Modern societies increasingly rely on auto- matic control systems. These systems are hardly pure tech-nical systems; instead they are complex socio-technical sys- tems, which consist of technical elements and social components. It is necessary to have a systematic approach to analyze these systems b...

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Published in:电子学报：英文版 2014-04, Vol.23 (2), p.409-414
Main Author: NIU Ru CAO Yuan GE Xiaocheng TANG Tao
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互连网络
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铁路事故
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反馈信息
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技术要素
组成部分
自动化控制系统
铁路事故
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