This book proposes polytopic projects implementation as a post-Cartesian
approach allowing facing high complexity. Polytopic projects are highly concentrated, quintessential ways of conveying knowledge, problems understanding and problem solving, developed, and implemented in concrete forms, as the amount of knowledge keeps growing and the subject areas we deal with are getting exceedingly complex.
Polytopic projects are grounded on a biologically inspired general framework
shared by the functional organization of living organisms as informational and
cognitive systems, the scientific and engineering methods, and the operational
structure of existing smart systems.
In order to reflect different aspects, physical, technological, scientific, economical, and so on, the projects assign the polytopic character in the way we are looking for necessary messages into multipart objects that can be seen from many different perspectives, at multiple conditioning levels pursued in increasing and decreasing hierarchical order.
The book envisages describing the polytopic architectures that will help to
combine several aspects of growing complexity systems into the emergent smart
systems. The 4D approach developed in previous monographs dedicated to polytopic projects is continued here and extended to 5D and 6D architectures.