Systems engineering approaches to sustainable environmental management

拟议的研究的总体目标是开发系统工程方法，可以解释冲突的价值体系的利益相关者在一个整体系统的系统框架，以明智的决策，可持续地解决紧迫的环境问题，在社会，技术和环境的接口。一个基本的激励目标是设计理论上健全的系统工程方法，并构建相应的实现算法，使它们能够操作灵活的决策支持系统，解决，往往是在真实的时间，战略决策方面的主要环境问题，社会面临的，如水污染，淡水短缺，全球变暖。这项研究可以方便地细分为五个相互关联的组成部分。研究的第一部分是确定如何从复杂自适应系统理论的想法可以扩展，以提供一个稳定的平台，知情的工程决策是自适应和综合的实时紧急性能的系统的相互作用的系统。第二个组成部分是对价值体系的系统研究，价值体系是任何类型的决策模型中最关键的部分，因为它们决定了决策者个人的行为方式以及与他人的互动方式。第三，对冲突解决的图模型的研究将使竞争和合作方面的战略决策，以有效地解决。在确定对特定环境争端的潜在战略解决方案之后，将制定战术性多标准决策分析（MCDA）谈判方法，以便在利益攸关方之间进行详细的权衡，从而为特定问题找到明确的可持续解决方案。将研究军事和民防资源分析将物体分类为预定类别的新方法，如根据易受气候变化影响的程度对区域进行分类。第五，将通过在可持续环境管理中的真实的应用，发展、测试和加强上述系统工程方法。

The overarching objective of the proposed research is to develop systems engineering methodologies which can account for the conflicting value systems of stakeholders within an overall system of systems framework to informed decision making, for sustainably addressing pressing environmental problems lying at the interface of society, technology and the environment. An underlying motivating goal is to design theoretically sound systems engineering methodologies and to construct accompanying implementation algorithms to permit them to be operationalized as flexible decision support systems for tackling, often in real time, the strategic decision making aspects of major environmental problems facing society, such as water pollution, fresh water shortages, and global warming. The research can be conveniently subdivided into five interconnected components. The first part of the research is to identify how ideas from complex adaptive systems theory can be expanded in order to provide a stable platform for informed engineering decision making which is adaptive and integrative to account for real-time emergent properties of interacting systems of systems. The second component is the systematic study of value systems, which form the most crucial part of any type of decision model, since they dictate how decision makers individually behave and interact with others. Thirdly, research on the Graph Model for Conflict Resolution will permit the competitive and cooperative aspects of strategic decision making to be effectively addressed. Subsequent to determining potential strategic resolutions to a given environmental dispute, tactical Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) approaches to bargaining will be developed for carrying out detailed trade-offs among stakeholders to arrive at well-defined sustainable solutions to a specific problem. New MCDA approaches for the categorization of objects into predefined groups, such as the classification of regions according to the level of their vulnerability to climate change, will be investigated. Fifthly, the aforementioned systems engineering methodologies will be developed, tested and enhanced via real world applications in sustainable environmental management.