Systems Research and Behavioral Science articles from March 2000

Systems Research and Behavioral Science archives from March 2000

Integrating Systems Concepts into Manufacturing Information Systems.
March 1, 2000... INTRODUCTION An important shift in the global balance of economic power has occurred since the Second World War. Once a dominant country in the manufacturing industry, the USA has experienced declining shares of the domestic and...

The Contribution of Systems Science to Information Systems Research.
March 1, 2000... INTRODUCTION The second half of the twentieth century ushered in the age of systems science (Schoderbek et al., 1985). Many systems terms have been developed since the 1940s, such as systems science, systems engineering, systems theory,...

The Contributions of Systems Science to the Development of the Decision Support System Subspecialties: An Empirical Investigation.
March 1, 2000... INTRODUCTION Systems science is a discipline dealing with sets of systems of `organized complexity'. Systems science originated from the experimental sciences, general systems theory and cybernetics, and it has evolved into a distinct area...

Systems Research, Genetic Algorithms and Information Systems.
March 1, 2000... INTRODUCTION Organizations recognize that to remain competitive in today's business environment it is imperative to have a knowledge-based view of the firm. The knowledge-processing methods and technology that codify, organize and perform...

Concept Representation, Factor Space Theory and Information Systems Research.
March 1, 2000... INTRODUCTION Information systems development is a complex process that must provide solutions to interact and manage various types of systems and subsystems. Examples of these systems include, but are not limited to: hardware systems,...

A Robust Control Method with Applications in Integrated Information Systems.
March 1, 2000... INTRODUCTION Control theory provided practitioners with a respectable inventory of rigorously formulated concepts, such as stability, positive and negative feedback, observability, controllability, and feedback and feedback control, as...

WSR: A Systems Approach for Information Systems Development.
March 1, 2000... INTRODUCTION It is increasingly argued that information systems (IS) as an emerging discipline is in urgent need of systems approaches which enable researchers and practitioners to treat IS as a multi-faceted whole concerning the interplay...

An Integration of Systems Science Methods and Object-oriented Analysis for Determining Organizational Information Requirements.
March 1, 2000... INTRODUCTION The subject of information systems grew out of computer science to fill a gap created by the failure of machine-code programmers to understand and solve user problems (Parnas, 1997). As pointed out by Stamper (1973): `On the...