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Architecture and Function of Complex Systems

System architecture is the study of early decision making in complex systems. This text teaches how to capture experience and analysis about early system decisions, and how to choose architectures that meet stakeholder needs, integrate easily, and evolve flexibly. With case studies written by leading practitioners, from hybrid cars to communications networks to aircraft, this text showcases the science and art of system architecture.
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Edward F. Crawley is the President of the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) in Moscow, Russia, and a Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems at MIT. He is the founder of ACX, BioScale, DataXu, and Ekotrope, and a member four national academies of engineering.
Bruce G. Cameron is the founder of Technology Strategy Partners (TSP), a consulting firm, and the Director of the System Architecture Lab at MIT. He has worked with 60 Fortune 500 firms across aerospace, high tech, and consumer goods, and has built hardware currently on orbit.
Daniel Selva is a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell. He has pioneered the use of machine learning tools in system architecture analysis, and is the recipient of Best Paper and Hottest Article awards for his work with NASA.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0133975347
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pearson
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 15, 2015
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ 1st
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 480 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780133975345
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0133975345
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.7 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.25 x 0.95 x 9.5 inches
  • Best Sellers Rank: #1,176,386 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Customers find the book comprehensive, starting with simple concepts that anyone can understand. They appreciate its clear explanations, with one customer noting it serves as a must-read for network architects and system engineers.
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Customers find the book comprehensive and clearly explained, starting with simple concepts anyone can understand, making it suitable for beginners.
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Very good for beginners like me. The slow start and detailed explanations give an ample opportunity for a good sound learning.Read more
This book offers a deep and rigorous framework for understanding how strategic decisions shape complex systems....Read more
...It starts off with simple systems anyone can understand and explains the various concepts from what is a system to a system architecture's role...Read more
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  • Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2026
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    This book offers a deep and rigorous framework for understanding how strategic decisions shape complex systems. I appreciated the clear structure and the real‑world case studies that make the theory more tangible. It’s definitely geared toward professionals or graduate students in engineering and product development, so the language can feel dense at times. Still, if you’re looking for a serious reference that connects architecture with long‑term strategy, this is an excellent resource.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2017
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    This was a required book for a class in my Systems Engineering masters courses. I didn't care for the course much, but this book was amazing. It starts off with simple systems anyone can understand and explains the various concepts from what is a system to a system architecture's role within a company compared to his role in the project.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on October 1, 2025
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  • Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2019
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    Diagrams and visual help in this book is great.
  • Reviewed in the United States on November 16, 2019
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    Very readable, good textbook format. That said the text book problems are more complex than the samples they provide in chapter.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on November 23, 2017
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    Great book and it is a must-read for network architects and system engineers.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2015
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    Great book. Brings this sometimes difficult to grasp concept into reach for the reader.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on June 8, 2017
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    Excellent if you're coming from an engineering background but still organized enough that engineering background is not required.
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  • jordan krasimirov
    5.0 out of 5 stars Reflects the MIT Systems Engineering professional program toa big extend
    Reviewed in Germany on May 31, 2018
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    My rating is actually between 4 and 5 stars, I was wondering which rating to give, but was in a good mood, so - 5 stars. But it is about 4.5 actually!

    The book is from some of the authors of the quite successful MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) professional certification program in "Architecture and Systems Engineering". Obviously, developing a learning program is not an easy job, and logically it is done only once and used as a structure in both the certification program and the book. The book is recommended in the beginning of the program and I can only echo it - if you already paid the price of the program, get the book in the beginning (and not in the last course, as I did).

    Now about the content. I tend to always compare the content of the MIT program with the book, and surprisingly, I have found that the program provides on some points MORE than the book - DSM for example. The topic exists in the book, but it was much more discussed in the course. So shortly - with the course you will learn more than from the book alone. If you have the book without doing the MIT program, it is still quite good, but consider that you need to do some additional search of information from other sources, as soon you touch some of the topics. I don't have other systems architecture books to be able to compare with, but consider that the content is of very different nature, compared with some openly available handbooks for the topic (like "NASA Systems Engineering Workbook" or "MITRE Systems Engineering Guide"). The book is not an instruction, process definition or guideline - it is a pure educational book.

    The book as a physical object (the one with price of ~62EUR in the moment) looks a little cheap for this price. Not bad, but I feel it somehow fragile and I open it veeery carefully :) I know that the professional literature is quite expensive because of the content, but still I was expecting something more robust. There are also editions for 2x the price, I don't know how they are in terms of book feeling. Another strange thing for me is that the electronic version of the book is almost twice the price of this book. Is it the content different? No idea.

    Overall : if you need a strong introduction of systems architecture and engineering, this is an easy to assimilate material from a very respected institution. It is also quite up-to-date (both the MIT certification program and the book are dated 2016), so also already proficient systems engineers could get something out of it. The systems engineering in general is quite new discipline academically seen. But as activity is as old as multi-discipline engineering is. Most of the practicing systems engineers are actually educated as experts in one discipline and have systems thinking out of the practice and experience. More formalized and structured education in this direction is more and more needed and the book here is a very good source of such. If you can afford the professional program of systems engineering of MIT or another good university - I highly recommend to do it.
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  • Abhilash
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in India on May 21, 2018
    Love the book. Also did the Course from MIT. Great work and amazing clarity.