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(with acceptable performance(s) and acceptable loss(es) to achieve those performances); predicated on their design, architecture, development, and integration work to achieve the requisite desired behaviors that accompany the
physical object and accommodate the other objects that are (or deemed to be)
part of the race event. Beyond the objects of cars and people, the framework
can be used to construct the objects that comprise the totality of the “race
event.” The “race event” could include the “crash” event, or not, depending on
the objective of constructing the “race event.” This grand ensemble would
include objects of the race, formulated by planning and carrying out
process(es) for procedures to manage the organizing of which cars compete in
which race (assuming more than one race), where the cars will be positioned
before and after the race, where the winner will be stationed or presented
with the results of winning, and where the car will be serviced before leaving.
Every aspect of the abstraction referred to as “the race” is definable with the
framework of objective causalities. The bringing together of the “race event”
constituent objects depends on definable interactions that are either observed
or deemed reasonable given the before and after events. No doubt there will
be emergent attributes that result from the “race event.” As we will find in
Chapter 3, emergence is commonplace. Temporary emergence(s) arises during the event, for example, a mechanic using a wrench tightens a lug nut,
scrapes the fender, and rips a shirt sleeve (the rate of ripping a shirt is an attribute of the interaction between the shirt and the means of ripping; whereas
the rip in a shirt is an attribute of the shirt). Temporary emergence can be
sustained as long as the appropriate EMMI is available and the context and
circumstances support the emergent attribute(s). This reversible circumstance
is metastable, with the mechanic recovering fully, the car repainted, and the
rip in the shirt sleeve mended. Unless there are irreversible actions (such as
could result from a devastating car crash), the only interactions that occur are
included in the “race event.” The notion of time that in some manner links
events can be investigated by dividing up “race event” into its causal trails, its
proximate conditions, and its local circumstances.
If all interactions were stopped at the same instant, all objects would cease
their behaviors, and all motion would cease simultaneously. In the next
instant of infinitesimally small time duration, all interactions, behaviors,
and motion would be allowed to continue for an infinitesimally small time
duration, but then frozen again an instant later. Captured in the method is
the time localization of an event, and at what spatial position (e.g., location)
it occurred. Comparing that moment of occurrence with that of a measurement standard (such as time in seconds, or increments thereof), the event
can be said to have occurred at a specific time. The onset of this infinitesimally small period of activity to the beginning of the next infinitesimally
small period of activity is referred to as the duration of the event. Events
concatenate and intertwine coextensively ad infinitum, one instant in a
sequence trail of instances. Objective causalities are defined as the relation
between two events—that one event uniquely determines the next event
Engineering Systems Integration
(with acceptable performance(s) and acceptable loss(es) to achieve those performances); predicated on their design, architecture, development, and integration work to achieve the requisite desired behaviors that accompany the
physical object and accommodate the other objects that are (or deemed to be)
part of the race event. Beyond the objects of cars and people, the framework
can be used to construct the objects that comprise the totality of the “race
event.” The “race event” could include the “crash” event, or not, depending on
the objective of constructing the “race event.” This grand ensemble would
include objects of the race, formulated by planning and carrying out
process(es) for procedures to manage the organizing of which cars compete in
which race (assuming more than one race), where the cars will be positioned
before and after the race, where the winner will be stationed or presented
with the results of winning, and where the car will be serviced before leaving.
Every aspect of the abstraction referred to as “the race” is definable with the
framework of objective causalities. The bringing together of the “race event”
constituent objects depends on definable interactions that are either observed
or deemed reasonable given the before and after events. No doubt there will
be emergent attributes that result from the “race event.” As we will find in
Chapter 3, emergence is commonplace. Temporary emergence(s) arises during the event, for example, a mechanic using a wrench tightens a lug nut,
scrapes the fender, and rips a shirt sleeve (the rate of ripping a shirt is an attribute of the interaction between the shirt and the means of ripping; whereas
the rip in a shirt is an attribute of the shirt). Temporary emergence can be
sustained as long as the appropriate EMMI is available and the context and
circumstances support the emergent attribute(s). This reversible circumstance
is metastable, with the mechanic recovering fully, the car repainted, and the
rip in the shirt sleeve mended. Unless there are irreversible actions (such as
could result from a devastating car crash), the only interactions that occur are
included in the “race event.” The notion of time that in some manner links
events can be investigated by dividing up “race event” into its causal trails, its
proximate conditions, and its local circumstances.
If all interactions were stopped at the same instant, all objects would cease
their behaviors, and all motion would cease simultaneously. In the next
instant of infinitesimally small time duration, all interactions, behaviors,
and motion would be allowed to continue for an infinitesimally small time
duration, but then frozen again an instant later. Captured in the method is
the time localization of an event, and at what spatial position (e.g., location)
it occurred. Comparing that moment of occurrence with that of a measurement standard (such as time in seconds, or increments thereof), the event
can be said to have occurred at a specific time. The onset of this infinitesimally small period of activity to the beginning of the next infinitesimally
small period of activity is referred to as the duration of the event. Events
concatenate and intertwine coextensively ad infinitum, one instant in a
sequence trail of instances. Objective causalities are defined as the relation
between two events—that one event uniquely determines the next event