Large-scale complex IT systems

The reductionism behind today's software-engineering methods breaks down in the face of systems complexity.

• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  Communications of the ACM

• Publication date

  2011-09-15

• Fields of study

  Computer Science, Engineering

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1145/2209249.2209268arXiv 1109.3444
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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