Systems Research and Behavioral Science articles from November 2007

Systems Research and Behavioral Science archives from November 2007

Editorial.(Editorial)
November 1, 2007... This edition of Systems Research and Behavioral Science contains an exciting collection of papers that emphasize the application of systems ideas in practice. The completion of projects long after their deadlines is a common and expensive...

Effects of resource allocation policies for reducing project durations: a systems modelling approach.(Research Paper)(Report)
November 1, 2007... INTRODUCTION Completing development projects after their deadlines is a common but expensive problem that has been well documented in the literature (e.g. Scott, 1993). Meeting schedule deadlines is often the most important concern for...

Adaptive management: making it happen through participatory systems analysis. (Research Paper).(Report)
November 1, 2007... INTRODUCTION Adaptive management has been advocated for many years as a way of managing natural resources in the face of uncertainty and variability, especially for systems where the outcomes of management decisions are difficult to...

Using ANT ideas in the managing of systemic action research.(Research Paper)(actor-network theory)(Report)
November 1, 2007... INTRODUCTION Collaborative forms of research, particularly action research, are well established ways of advancing the theory and practice of systems thinking but their use can be problematical. In such research the researcher becomes...

Developing a systemic textual analysis methodology based on the human activity system modelling language of soft systems methodology (SSM).(Research Paper)(Report)
November 1, 2007... INTRODUCTION This paper presents a textual analysis methodology which utilizes the human activity system (HAS) concept from soft systems methodology (SSM) (Checkland, 1981; Wilson, 1984) together with a modified version of the HAS...

Critical heuristics: a contribution to addressing the vexed question of so-called Knowledge Management.(Research Paper)(Report)
November 1, 2007... INTRODUCTION 'Knowledge management, as a field of study, has suffered from issues of definition since before the term caught the attention of practicing managers and IS professionals. Put simply, it is unclear what it is that everyone is...

Old ideas may still be new: a system identification approach to tanker freight modelling.(Research Paper)(Report)
November 1, 2007... INTRODUCTION In this paper, we present an innovative approach in systems research with an application relating to the holistic modelling and identification of freight rates (prices) in the oil tanker industry. Our scope and methodology is...

A global strategy for human development: the work of the Institute of Cultural Affairs ([dagger]).(Notes and Insights)
November 1, 2007... INTRODUCTION In the 1970s the Institute of Cultural Affairs (ICA), based in Chicago, Illinois, began to create community development projects around the world. Initially 24 were created, one in each time zone. These demonstration projects...

Anatol Rapoport (May 22, 1911-January 20, 2007): pioneer of systems theory and peace research, mathematician, philosopher and pianist.(Obituary)(Obituary)
November 1, 2007... Anatol Rapoport was one of the great universal thinkers of the 20th century. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] As the author of approximately 500 publications of which about 25 are books available in 10 languages, he spearheaded many scientific...

The 19th European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research, Vienna March 25 to 28, 2008.(NEWS)
November 1, 2007... Symposium C of this Meeting is chaired by Ranulph Glanville and takes as its focus second-order cybernetics. Because the Gordon Pask Archive will just have been opened at the University of Vienna, it is intended to provide a special stage for...

Workshop on Computational Finance and Business Intelligence, ICCS 2008, Krakow, Poland, 23-25 June 2008.(NEWS)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... The workshop focuses on computational science aspects of asset/derivatives pricing and financial risk management that relate to business intelligence. It will include but not limited to modelling, numeric computation, algorithmic and...

Chance Discoveries in Real World Decision Making: Data-based Interaction of Human Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Chance Discoveries in Real World Decision Making: Data-based Interaction of Human Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence. By Yukio Ohsawa and Shusaku Tsumoto (Eds). Published by Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 2006, 404 pp., 161...