CASoS Engineering Applications Space and Vision of how We Grow

Diagram of CASoS Engineering application space as seen through CASoS, Aspirations and Perturbations

Applications are chosen to balance the portfolio for diversity in scale (local, regional, national, or global) and subject domain so that cross disciplinary patterns can emerge. Outwardly-growing research, development and applications (RD&A) connections from this kernel will, if properly nurtured, ultimately form a CASoS Engineering community of theory, practice and culture that extends throughout the many fields where solutions to eco-socio-economic-technical problems are critically required.

Applications are also chosen to foster the growth of the discipline. Thus they require:

model capability development that enhances our understanding of high impact situations or issues in particular CASoS of great interest to global security
development and testing of theories about the vulnerabilities, strengths, and risks of general CASoS
development of an integrated modeling and analysis environment to understand and communicate the key conditions, parameters and adaptive behaviors relative to the application goals

The CASoS Engineering applications space is a function of the problems which would benefit from applying the CASoS Engineering approach. The figure above provides one view of the applications space as a network of perturbations, CASoS and aspirations; illustrating the breadth of problems that would benefit from integrated risk analysis and risk mitigation design.
There are significant gaps in what is done and what needs to be done to build the CASoS Engineering discipline. The history of Applications shows where we are.