Complexity: concept, causes and control

Complexity arises from many sources: both within and outside the system. Internal sources include modern hardware, e.g. super-scalar processors, and external sources include the requirements for evolving already successful systems. Complexity is inescapable unless we are willing to reduce our depend...

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