The paper presents the complex energy analysis of technological systems of gas steam power plants integrated with coal gasification.
The department is an active participant in the MIT Energy Initiative and in MIT's interdisciplinary programs of instruction and research in the management of complex technological systems and technology and public policy.
A problem of optimal control of discrete systems arises in planning economics, optimization of complex technological systems in different issues of organization of production and investigation of operations, and also in controlling continuous processes are using up-to-date computer technologies.
Assessing the reliability of complex technological systems such as communication networks, transportation grids, and bridge networks is a difficult task.
In evolutionary economics, NK fitness landscapes have been used to simulate the design of complex technological systems as a trial-and-error process towards local optima.
For the past 30 years, Prof. Meshkati has been teaching and conducting research on risk reduction and reliability enhancement of complex technological systems; recently he has been on two national panels in the United States investigating two major accidents; the Deepwater Horizon Explosion and the Fukushima Nuclear Accident.
The proliferation and significance of these complex technological systems of information demand a new focus in academic scholarship - one committed to cross-disciplinary study, astute about both the technical and the social, and devoted to integrating theory, investigation, design, and practice.
According to many studies, a majority of complex, large-scale technological systems' accidents have been caused by breakdowns of the weakest links in this chain, most often the human or organizational subsystems (for further information see IAEA 1988; Meshkati 1990 , 1991 1992; NAE/NRC 2011; NAS/NRC 2014; Tabibzadeh 2014; Tabibzadeh and Meshkati 2014a, b, 2015; Meshkati and Khashe 2015).
Parallel computing technologies with optimal hierarchical (multilevel) embedding of algorithms into the architecture of supercomputers are offered for creation an integrated model of complex technological system.
The story of Flight 1549 is a tale of normalcy par excellence: complex technological systems and institutions working as designed in the face of rare but anticipated contingencies, with trained experts responding as they are supposed to, making good decisions and saving lives.
The article calls for a paradigm shift that is deemed necessary for addressing the difficult reliability problems that will be posed by the complex technological systems of the twenty-first century.
