Provides a comprehensive overview and introduction to the concepts, methodologies, analysis, design and applications of metasynthetic computing and engineering. The author: • Presents an overview of complex systems, especially open complex giant systems such as the Internet, complex behavioural and social problems, and actionable knowledge discovery and delivery in the big data era. • Discusses ubiquitous intelligence in complex systems, including human intelligence, domain intelligence, social intelligence, network intelligence, data intelligence and machine intelligence, and their synergy through metasynthetic engineering. • Explains the concept and methodology of human-centred, human-machine-cooperated qualitative-to-quantitative metasynthesis for understanding and managing open complex giant systems, and its computing approach: metasynthetic computing. • Introduces techniques and tools for analysing and designing problem-solving systems for open complex problems and systems. Metasynthetic Computing and Engineering uses the systematology methodology in addressing system complexities in open complex giant systems, for which it may not only be effective to apply reductionism or holism. The book aims to encourage and inspire discussions, design, implementation and reflection of effective methodologies and tools for computing and engineering open complex systems and problems. Researchers, research students and practitioners in complex systems, artificial intelligence, data science, computer science, and even system science, cognitive science, behaviour science, and social science, will find this book invaluable.

Provides a comprehensive overview of complex systems and their methodologies for understanding system complexities and ubiquitous intelligence Presents a new methodology and corresponding approaches, namely, metasynthetic computing and engineering, to view, analyse, design and implement problem-solving systems Includes tools for handling open complex systems and problems

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Longbing Cao holds a PhD in Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Systems from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China and another PhD in Computing Science at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. He is a professor of data science at UTS. He has been working on data science and analytics research, education, development, and enterprise applications since he was a CTO and then joined academia. Motivated by real-world significant and common challenges, he has been leading the team to develop theories, tools and applications for new areas including non-IID learning, actionable knowledge discovery, behavior informatics, and complex intelligent systems, in addition to issues related to artificial intelligence, knowledge discovery, machine learning, and their enterprise applications. In data science and analytics, he initiated the Data Science and Knowledge Discovery lab at UTS in 2007, the Advanced Analytics Institute in 2011, the degrees Master of Analytics (Research) and PhD in Analytics in 2011 which are recognized as the world's first degrees in data science, the IEEE Task Force on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA) and IEEE Task Force on Behavior, Economic and Soci-cultural Computing in 2013, the IEEE Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA), the ACM SIGKDD Australia and New Zealand Chapter in 2014, and the International Journal of Data Science and Analytics with Springer in 2015. He served as program and general chairs of conferences such as KDD2015. In enterprise data science innovation, his team has successfully delivered many large projects for government and business organizations in over 10 domains including finance/capital markets, banking, health and car insurance, health, telco, recommendation, online business, education, and the public sector including ATO, DFS, DHS, DIBP and IP Australia, resulting in billions of dollar savings and mentions in government, industry, media and OECD reports.

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Preface.- Complex Systems.- Ubiquitous Intelligence. - Systems Methodologies. Computing Paradigms. Metasynthesis. OSOAD Methodology. Visual Modelling. Formal Modelling. Integrative Modelling. Agent Service- Oriented Architectural Design. Agent Service-Oriented Detailed Design. Ontological Engineering. OSOAD Case Study. Actionable Knowledge Discovery and Delivery. Learning Complex Behavioural and Social Data. Opportunities and Prospects. Index