technological system failure
1System safety — The system safety concept calls for a risk management strategy based on identification, analysis of hazards and application of remedial controls using a systems based approach.cite book|title= System Safety Engineering and… …
2Technological escalation — describes the fact that whenever two parties are in competition, each side tends to employ continuing technological improvements to defeat the other. Technology is defined here as a creative invention, be it an object or a method of using an… …
3System accident — A system accident is an unanticipated interaction of multiple failures in a complex system. This complexity can either be technological or organizational, and often is both.[1] A system accident can be very easy to see in hindsight, but very… …
4political system — Introduction the set of formal legal institutions that constitute a “government” or a “ state.” This is the definition adopted by many studies of the legal or constitutional arrangements of advanced political orders. More broadly defined,… …
5information system — Introduction an integrated set of components for collecting, storing, processing, and communicating information (information science). Business firms, other organizations, and individuals in contemporary society rely on information systems… …
6Market failure — is a concept within economic theory wherein the allocation of goods and services by a free market is not efficient. That is, there exists another conceivable outcome where a market participant may be made better off without making someone else… …
7Federal Reserve System — FRB and FED redirect here. For other uses, see FRB (disambiguation) and FED (disambiguation). Federal Reserve System …
8Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System — The Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System is a United States Department of Defense Missile Defense Agency program developed to provide a last line of defense against ballistic missiles. Aegis BMD (also know as Sea Based Midcourse) is designed to …
9Hydro-Québec's electricity transmission system — is an expansive, international power transmission system located in Quebec, Canada with extensions into the Northeastern United States. Major expansion of the network began with the commissioning of the alternating current 735,000 volt (735 kV)… …
10Nanoelectromechanical system — Part of a series of articles on Nanoelectronics Single molecule electronics …
