Systems Research and Behavioral Science articles from March 2007

Systems Research and Behavioral Science archives from March 2007

ANZSYS special issue.(Editorial)
March 1, 2007... When Amanda Gregory and Mike Jackson agreed to publish this special issue to celebrate 12 years of the Australian and New Zealand Systems (ANZSYS) conferences, we were pleased that the work being completed in the antipodes in the systems field...

Moving beyond the academy: a commentary on extra-mural initiatives in systemic development.(Research Paper)
March 1, 2007... INTRODUCTION For this special edition of the Journal, different groups that have hosted the ANZSYS (Australia New Zealand Systems Society) annual meetings over the years have been asked to reflect critically on some of the key aspects,...

Analysis, synthesis, systems thinking and the scientific method: rediscovering the importance of open systems.(Research Paper)
March 1, 2007... INTRODUCTION Some 25 years ago Checkland observed: 'Systems thinking' is not yet a phrase in general use. Eventually, I believe, systems thinking and analytical thinking will come to be thought of as the twin...

The theoretical underpinnings of soft systems methodology - comparing the work of Geoffrey Vickers and Humberto Maturana.(Research Paper)
March 1, 2007... INTRODUCTION In seeking, a posteriori, to articulate the theoretical underpinnings of soft systems methodology (SSM), Peter Checkland (1986, 1995) identifies Sir Geoffrey Vickers' work as providing a convincing explanation of what is...

Re-evaluating systems engineering as a framework for tackling systems issues.(Research Paper)
March 1, 2007... INTRODUCTION Systems engineering emerged as an engineering discipline following World War II in response to the increasing cost and technical complexity of development and acquisition programmes in the 1950s and 1960s (Hall, 1962;...

Extending data mining methodologies to encompass organizational factors.(Research Paper)
March 1, 2007... INTRODUCTION The process of extracting knowledge from data, known as data mining (Weiss and Indurkhya, 1997), has been effectively used across a range of industries (Hormanzi and Giles, 2004). Data mining studies have primarily been...

The systemic roots of suicide bombing.(Research Paper)
March 1, 2007... INTRODUCTION This paper examines the systemic factors involved in suicide terrorism. In the contemporary world, this has tended to be linked to suicide bombers. Modern suicide terrorism is characterized by the: '... targeted use of...

A systems thinking study of retention and recruitment issues for the New Zealand Army electronic technician trade group.(Research Paper)(Author abstract)
March 1, 2007... INTRODUCTION Retention and recruitment issues with skilled staff continue to remain a problematic area of concern for human resource and business managers in public and private sector organizations around the world. Particularly when...

Getting the big picture in natural resource management - systems thinking as 'method' for scientists, policy makers and other stakeholders.(Research Paper)
March 1, 2007... INTRODUCTION Land managers are regularly faced with the prospect of having to anticipate the consequences of their actions, and avoid unintended consequences, without comprehensive information about the system surrounding their management...

Practitioner identity in systemic intervention: reflections on the promotion of environmental health through Maori community development.(Research Paper)
March 1, 2007... INTRODUCTION Over the past 40 years, a number of authors have argued that it is important to investigate the boundaries of systemic interventions (e.g. Churchman, 1970; Jones, 1982; Ulrich, 1983, 1987, 1993, 1996a; Midgley, 1996, 2000;...

Resilience of agri-industries neighbouring the Blue Mountains World Heritage Area.(Notes and Insights)
March 1, 2007... INTRODUCTION: AGRI-INDUSTRIES NEIGHBOURING THE BLUE MOUNTAINS WORLD HERITAGE AREA There is a growing interest in applying concepts of resilience and complex adaptive systems to questions of sustainability. This research note describes the...

The 51st annual meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS), Tokyo Institute of Technology, 5-10 August 2007.(NEWS)
March 1, 2007... The 51st annual meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS) marks the beginning of another half-century history of interdisciplinary collaboration and synthesis of systems sciences. The ISSS is unique among...

The 5th IIGSS workshop, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Wuhan, People's Republic of China, 14-17 June 2007.(NEWS)
March 1, 2007... Organizers The International Institute for General Systems Studies IIGSS--China Branch: Huazhong University of Science and Technology Chairs J. Y. Lin Forrest Mianyun Chen Hongxiu Wu Purpose and Them The purpose...

ISOneWorld2007 conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (Orleans Convention Center), 11-13 April 2007.(NEWS)
March 1, 2007... Special Track: Systems Thinking/Systems Practice related to the Information and Communications Technology sector Track Chair: Don Petkov, Eastern Connecticut State University, USA, petkovd@easternct. edu The aim of this special track...