Social systems engineering (SSE): Architecture, design & optimization of socio-technical systems

Recent paradigm-shifting research has revealed that the thermodynamic feedback mechanisms which underlie physics, chemistry and biology have corresponding parallel processes in socio-political, legal, and economic domains. This study investigates the opportunities and obstacles encountered by Social Systems Engineering (SSE), an emerging systems engineering discipline, which aims at integrating economics, law, and corporate governance within the framework of physics. The primary objective is to explore methodologies for engineering and designing institutions grounded in experimentally replicable symmetries and utilizing observable physical metrics that can be iteratively optimized across tradespaces to tap into the increasingly non-local potentials. As a case study we will examine the feasibility of employing mathematical modeling and simulation techniques, adapted from engineering and physics, to the architecture, design and optimization of socio-technical systems.