Exploring high-level Perspectives on Self-Configuration Capabilities of Systems
This work aims to help researchers and practitioners in systems engineering and related fields better understand and compare self-configuration capabilities, though it appears incremental as it builds on existing ideas without introducing a new paradigm.
The paper addresses the challenge of comparing self-configuration approaches across different technical domains by exploring high-level concepts like Ω-units to provide theoretical instruments for connecting these areas.
Optimization of product performance repetitively introduces the need to make products adaptive in a more general sense. This more general idea is often captured under the term 'self-configuration'. Despite the importance of such capability, research work on this feature appears isolated by technical domains. It is not easy to tell quickly whether the approaches chosen in different technological domains introduce new ideas or whether the differences just reflect domain idiosyncrasies. For the sake of easy identification of key differences between systems with self-configuring capabilities, I will explore higher level concepts for understanding self-configuration, such as the Ω-units, in order to provide theoretical instruments for connecting different areas of technology and research.