SITUATION COMPLEXITY INDEX
Charles François (2004). SITUATION COMPLEXITY INDEX, International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics, 2(2): 3060.
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Vol. (num.) | 2(2) |
| ID | ◀ 3060 ▶ |
| Object type | Methodology or model |
J. WARFIELD proposes the following criteria to judge the complexity of a situation:
- “Necessary and sufficient conditions that a situation be complex are that the situation maintains seven components: a) human presence, b) a generic purpose associated with human presence, c) exercise of system inquiry by the human presence, d) human purpose-related infrastructure to make possible the system inquiry, e) system-related environment, f) sensing apertures for space-time sampling of the situation by the human presence, and g) cognition on the part of the human presence” (1995, p.31).
This is a quantitative index, whose pratical use is explained by WARFIELD (p.32).