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NASA NTRS2018

Using Maxwell's Demon to Tame the "Devil in the Details" that are Encountered During System Development

Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) is the formalized application of modeling to support system requirements, design, analysis, verification and validation activities beginning in the conceptual design phase and continuing throughout development and later life cycle phases . This presentation will discuss the value proposition that MBSE has for Systems Engineering, and the associated culture change needed to adopt it.

Model Based Systems Engineering↗

NASA NTRS1989

Thermodynamic cost of computation, algorithmic complexity and the information metric

Algorithmic complexity is discussed as a computational counterpart to the second law of thermodynamics. It is shown that algorithmic complexity, which is a measure of randomness, sets limits on the thermodynamic cost of computations and casts a new light on the limitations of Maxwell's demon. Algorithmic complexity can also be used to define distance between binary strings.

Zurek, W. H.↗