Complexity is commonly summarized as ‘the actions of the whole are more than the sum of the actions of the parts’. Understanding how the coherence emerges from these natural and artificial systems provides a radical shift in the process of thought, and brings huge promises for controlling and fostering this emergence. The authors define the term ‘Complex System Engineering’ to denote this approach, which aims at transferring the radical insights from Complex System Science to the pragmatic world of engineering, especially in the Computing System Engineering domain. A theoretical framework for Complex System Engineering is built by the morphogenetic engineering framework, which identifies a graduation of models, in growing order of generative power. The implementation of Complex System Engineering requires a portfolio of operational solutions: The authors therefore provide a classification of Complex System application approaches to answer this challenge and support the emergence of Complex System Engineers capable of addressing the issues of an ever more connected world.

复杂性通常被概括为“整体的作用大于部分的作用之和”。理解这些自然和人为系统如何产生连贯性，将在思想过程中带来根本性的转变，并为控制和促进这种出现带来巨大希望。作者定义了“复杂系统工程”一词来表示这种方法，该方法旨在将激进的见解从复杂系统科学转移到实用的工程领域，尤其是在计算系统工程领域。形态发生工程框架建立了复杂系统工程的理论框架，该框架以生成能力的升序确定模型的等级。复杂系统工程的实施需要一系列操作解决方案：