Special Issue: Analysis and Design of Sociotechnical Systems

Abstract

Dealing with the aforementioned challenges is beyond the research scope of a single discipline. Some essential elements of research will continue to be pursued by disciplinary research in a diverse set of fields such as psychology, economics, and computer science. There are, however, several crucial interdisciplinary research directions relevant to the Systems Engineering and Design (SE&D) community that encompasses various scholars within several communities, including American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), Council of Engineering Systems Universities (CESUN), and Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS). Responding to that, this special issue brings together fundamental scientific contributions that the SE&D community are already making and lays out a path for our future engagement with this important topic. As we will discuss in the following sections, some of these areas are already actively pursued by SE&D researchers, and this special issue aims at collecting and classifying a group of representative papers in such areas. In what follows, we will also make a case for a few other interdisciplinary research areas that can be further pursued by the SE&D community in the coming years.