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The sources of complexity are the intrinsic complexity of each subproblem, plus the interaction of subproblems.

Blogging from ICSE – day 1 | Serendipity 2009

The sources of complexity are the intrinsic complexity of each subproblem, plus the interaction of subproblems.

2009 May 20 | Serendipity 2009

The sources of complexity are the intrinsic complexity of each subproblem, plus the interaction of subproblems.

2009 May | Serendipity 2009

The process repeats until each subproblem resolves itself into one that can be physically dealt with.

The Nature of Technology W. Brain Arthur 2009

Sometimes the principle—the conceptual solution—is stitched together from existing functionalities, each one solving a subproblem.

The Nature of Technology W. Brain Arthur 2009

It is a process that continues until each problem and subproblem resolves itself into one that can be physically dealt with—until the chain is fully in place.

The Nature of Technology W. Brain Arthur 2009

Each subproblem could potentially be solved in several ways.

The Nature of Technology W. Brain Arthur 2009

Here recursiveness comes into play, because each obstacle stretch becomes its own subproblem and requires its own solution or subprinciple or subtechnology, in our case.

The Nature of Technology W. Brain Arthur 2009

It was inspired by snidegrrl making some comment somewhere about her "feminist utopia" and ever since I've been thinking of how I'd resolve problem X and how those resolutions could create subproblem Y and how I'd fix that and so on.

best WHB question EVAR snidegrrl 2004

The wording of the scientists' research abstract is really quite something: "We identify a subproblem--the 'that's what she said' problem--with two distinguishing characteristics: (1) use of nouns that are euphemisms for sexually explicit nouns and (2) structure common in the erotic domain."

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