Systems Design
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Researchers and practitioners alike are in general agreement that the public sector is increasingly tasked with managing 'complex problems'. Many authors have warned that the established practices in government are not sufficient to deal... more
This dissertation aims to aid in the understanding of Mass Customization. It is recently presented as a new business strategy not only for Industries but also for any sort of business activities. State of art theories, business strategies... more
The authors study collaborative modeling by analyzing conversations and loud thinking during modeling sessions and the resulting models themselves. They identify the basic activities of the modeling teams on the social, pragmatic,... more
A short introduction to the author's critical systems heuristics (CSH), a framework for reflective professional practice based in critical systems thinking and practical philosophy. Abstract: Health care planning, city and regional... more
Design, delivery and improvement processes in healthcare is of great challenge due to increasing pressures on healthcare systems alongside inherent complexities, resulting in limited benefits or unforeseen consequences. A recent Systems... more
Requirements elicitation impacts software quality. It is a set of activities that aims to gather user needs towards the production of user requirement specification. It must be comprehensive and easy to understand by the stakeholders.... more
Mobile phones come in different shapes and sizes. Owners of GSM phones are sometimes classed by the type of phone(s) they own and the functionalities the phones can perform. The demand for functionalities that come with GSM phones has... more
This study sought to; determine levels of income generated from Solid Waste Management (SWM) practices, assess contribution of the income to participating households’ (HHs) socio-economics and make policy recommendations to exploit... more
Rev. 2015 version of a review of C.W. Churchman’s "The Design of Inquiring Systems," New York: Basic Books, 1971, originally published in Journal of the Operational Research Society, 36 (9) 1985, pp. 873-876. This expanded and updated... more
Idea: Establish a background systemic framework for comprehending the context of foreground elements of system design and which produces the basic viewpoints on a real time system under design.
How can we develop competence in research and professional practice? This essay tries to answer the question from the perspective of critical systems thinking, that is, through an approach that aims to promote reflective research and... more
This entry on "Critical systems thinking" (CST), prepared for a major encyclopedia in the field of Operations Research and Management Science, offers a non-partisan, comparative account of CST's two major strands, CSH and TSI. A new,... more
C. West Churchman was a major pioneer of operations research, management science, and "the systems approach" to applied science. Written shortly after his death in March 2004, this obituary offers a short biography of Churchman; an... more
This workshop draws on feminist and other critical methodologies to construct interdisciplinary interventions in the design of machine learning systems. Theoretical concepts of "figuration", "situating/situated knowledge", "critical... more
A personal appreciation of C.W. Churchman's philosophy of social systems design, and the role it played in the author's work on critical systems heuristics. Revised version of a Guest Editorial, originally titled "C. West Churchman –... more
The aim of this paper is to rethink games and game design within the theory of self-producing interaction systems. With this research, I seek to identify several dynamics of play and engagement elicited by games that, by extension, can... more
Paper discusses principles of the formation of redundancy classification for the design of fault tolerant computer controlled systems. Brief review of approaches to defining redundancy classification is presented including... more
Network intrusion detection has remained a field of rigorous research over the past few years. Advances in computing performance, in terms of processing power and storage, have allowed the use of resource-intensive intelligent algorithms,... more
Analyzing how collective action leading to mass innovation emerges against the backdrop of an increasingly connected world, we introduce the concept of collective generativity as a new theoretical lens for understanding the ability of... more