Risk and change management in complex systems

Dependency and Structure Modeling (DSM) techniques focus on system elements and their interdependencies related to product, process and organization domains. They contribute to support mastering the amount of information required to better understand, model, and analyze, then make improved decisions to design and manage complex systems.

The International DSM Conference is the annual forum for practitioners, researchers and developers to exchange experiences, discuss new concepts and showcase results and tools. Hosted by Ecole Centrale Paris and organized in collaboration with Technische Universität München, the 16th DSM Conference took place in Chatenay-Malabry, France, 2-4 July 2014. The International DSM Conference is an endorsed event of the Design Society.

The theme of this 2014 volume is "Risk and Change Management in Complex Systems". It is justified by the ever-growing complexity of our systems, involving the difficulty to anticipate potential indirect consequences of events, whether desired or not. Accordingly, this implies improvement of the methods and tools supporting the design and management of such systems.

This volume contains 37 peer-reviewed papers, that describe the recent advances and emerging challenges in DSM research and applications. These Proceedings represent a broad overview of the state-of-the-art on the development and application of DSM. There are a significant number of papers with industry authors or co-authors, reflecting this balance and synergy between conceptual development and real-life industrial application, which are in the genes of the DSM Conference series