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Systems, Volume 12, Issue 9

2024 September - 66 articles

Cover Story: The growing relevance of Socio-Ecological Systems (SESs) thinking reflects both the challenges of an anthropogenic poly crisis and attempts to understand the complexities of societal development in an era of globalisation. The article develops a variant of SESs thinking through a review of the literature on ‘Learning Ecologies’ to assess the strengths and limitations of this human ecological approach. Perceived limitations are addressed by developing a Social Ecosystem Model (SEM), which adds a ‘political economy and ecology’ dimension to the learning ecologies concept. The expanded human ecosystem model is then applied to an analysis of learning and skills in the English context, in support of an inclusive and place-based approach to vocational education and training. View this paper
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Articles (66)

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,096 Views
23 Pages

Prioritizing Factors to Foster Improvement of Sales Operations in Small- and Medium-Sized Industrial Organizations

  • Luis A. Vásquez-Ruiz,
  • Juan E. Núñez-Ríos and
  • Jacqueline Y. Sánchez-García

23 September 2024

Small- and medium-sized companies depend heavily on their internal configuration to achieve their goals, generate profit, and remain competitive. The performance of the sales department is often crucial for this. Decision-makers need to understand ho...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Systems Thinking Approach to Strategic Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,196 Views
17 Pages

A Methodological Framework for New Product Development in Fuzzy Environments

  • Chun-Ming Yang,
  • Shiyao Li,
  • Kuen-Suan Chen,
  • Mingyuan Li and
  • Wei Lo

22 September 2024

New product development (NPD) is crucial for helping companies to maintain competitive advantages. In this study, a methodological framework is presented combining a novel Kano model and fuzzy axiomatic design (FAD) for improving the product developm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,187 Views
23 Pages

22 September 2024

Currently, the media industry is in the rapid development stage of media integration, which has brought about great changes in content production mode, presentation form, communication mechanism, operation and maintenance management, etc. At the same...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,761 Views
18 Pages

21 September 2024

Constructed response items that require the student to give more detailed and elaborate responses are widely applied in large-scale assessments. However, the hand-craft scoring with a rubric for massive responses is labor-intensive and impractical du...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,988 Views
12 Pages

20 September 2024

Marxist political economy provides a theoretical framework for sustainable supply chains, while the implementation of sustainable supply chains embodies and deepens the practical application of Marxist principles. This paper studies supply chain sust...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Trends in Sustainable Operations and Supply Chain Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,940 Views
21 Pages

19 September 2024

Green process innovation is an important strategy in the high-quality development of enterprises. Digital technology is becoming a key factor in helping businesses address environmental issues and contributes to their green process innovation and sus...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Systems Analysis of Enterprise Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,796 Views
11 Pages

17 September 2024

Many ranking algorithms and metrics have been proposed to identify high-impact papers. Both the direct citation counts and the network-based PageRank-like algorithms are commonly used. Ideally, the more complete the data on the citation network, the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,999 Views
15 Pages

Nash–Cournot Equilibrium and Its Impact on Network Transmission Congestion

  • María de los Ángeles Sánchez Galván,
  • Jaime Robles García,
  • David Romero Romero and
  • Mohamed Badaoui

17 September 2024

This paper evaluates the impact of congestion on transmission lines when the operation cost is minimized using economic dispatch (ED), comparing the results obtained with the Nash–Cournot Equilibrium (NCE). A methodology is developed for the op...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,793 Views
22 Pages

17 September 2024

System-based approaches are critical for addressing the complex and interconnected nature of urban ecological development and restoration of ecosystem services. This study adopts a system perspective to investigate the spatiotemporal drivers of key e...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,723 Views
27 Pages

A Study of the Main Mathematical Models Used in Mobility, Storage, Pickup and Delivery in Urban Logistics: A Systematic Review

  • Renan Paula Ramos Moreno,
  • Rui Borges Lopes,
  • José Vasconcelos Ferreira,
  • Ana Luísa Ramos and
  • Diogo Correia

17 September 2024

This systematic review investigates the main mathematical models applied in urban logistics, focusing on routing, location and transshipment problems. The study addresses the growing demand for efficient and sustainable logistics solutions driven by...

(This article belongs to the Section Supply Chain Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,729 Views
21 Pages

The Influence of Machine Learning on Enhancing Rational Decision-Making and Trust Levels in e-Government

  • Ayat Mohammad Salem,
  • Serife Zihni Eyupoglu and
  • Mohammad Khaleel Ma’aitah

16 September 2024

The rapid growth in the use of AI techniques, mainly machine learning (ML), is revolutionizing different industries by significantly enhancing decision-making processes through data-driven insights. This study investigates the influence of using ML,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Navigating Digital Transformation: Leadership and Decision Making in Today’s Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,477 Views
25 Pages

15 September 2024

Digitalization represents a pivotal global development trend and serves as a significant force propelling economic and social transformation. This manuscript uses the global Malmquist–Luenberger (GML) model to estimate green total factor produc...

(This article belongs to the Topic AI and IoT for Promoting Green Operation and Sustainable Environment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,049 Views
25 Pages

15 September 2024

The carbon quota allocation method serves as the foundation for the design of the carbon trading mechanism, which has a significant impact on supply chain production decisions and the operational efficiency of the carbon trading market. To analyze th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multi-criteria Decision Making in Supply Chain Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,956 Views
22 Pages

14 September 2024

Road traffic accidents result in numerous fatalities and injuries annually. Advanced driving assistance systems (ADASs) have garnered significant attention to mitigate these harms. An accurate safety assessment can significantly improve the effective...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of System Engineering and Complex Theory in Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,072 Views
15 Pages

14 September 2024

Intuitionistic linguistic numbers (ILNs) describe expert evaluation information by representing semantic assessment values and reflecting the confidence level and hesitation of decision-makers. ILNs are widely used to handle uncertain and incomplete...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems Practice in Social Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
7,302 Views
22 Pages

14 September 2024

System modeling language (SysML) diagrams generated manually by system modelers can sometimes be prone to errors, which are time-consuming and introduce subjectivity. Natural language processing (NLP) techniques and tools to create SysML diagrams can...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,636 Views
19 Pages

Developing a Maturity Rating System for Project Management Offices

  • Abdullah M. Alshabragi,
  • Abdulmohsen S. Almohsen and
  • Abdulrahman A. Bin Mahmoud

14 September 2024

Effective project management is crucial for organizations to achieve strategic objectives and maintain competitiveness in today’s market. The project management office (PMO) has emerged as a key enabler in enhancing project management effective...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems Practice in Social Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,195 Views
22 Pages

14 September 2024

This study analyzes the current status of the digitalization of the Romanian Health System (RHS). Data were collected from 135 active public and private health professionals using an online questionnaire with 102 items. The results of the analysis sh...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in the Modeling and Analytics of Health and Healthcare Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
11,502 Views
40 Pages

Governance of Corporate Greenwashing through ESG Assurance

  • Meiwen Bu,
  • Xin Liu,
  • Bin Zhang,
  • Saddam A. Hazaea,
  • Run Fan and
  • Zijian Wang

14 September 2024

This study utilizes data from Chinese A-share listed companies from 2014 to 2022 to theoretically analyze and empirically test the governance effect of ESG assurance on corporate greenwashing behavior, as well as the role played by the legal environm...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Business Innovation: From Management Systems to Corporate Social Responsibility)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,835 Views
20 Pages

14 September 2024

Decision making in critical situations is a complex process. There are many processes to consider. This paper describes a theoretical approach to researching attentional processes and automatic unconscious processes in terms of metacognition. An appl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,637 Views
20 Pages

12 September 2024

The objective of this study is to analyze the impact of intellectual capital (IC) and its components on firm financial performance using data from Chinese agricultural listed companies during 2015–2020. The moderating role of board diversity in...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems Practice in Social Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,440 Views
26 Pages

12 September 2024

Projects involve inter-organizational relationship cognition, which is central to collaborative engineering project value added. Interest in value added in the project lifecycle is mounting and gaining increasing attention in the research literature....

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,944 Views
23 Pages

Complex Business Environment Systems and Corporate Innovation

  • Yu Gao,
  • Xiaojie Sun,
  • Na Liu,
  • Wenyu Zhang and
  • Jian Xu

11 September 2024

Sustainable development has become a corporate goal all over the world, and innovation as a crucial prerequisite for sustainable development has attracted much attention. This study investigates the relationship between the business environment and c...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems Practice in Social Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
147 Citations
84,196 Views
25 Pages

11 September 2024

In today’s competitive and globalized world, innovation is essential for organizational survival, offering a means for companies to address environmental impacts and social challenges. As innovation processes accelerate, managers need to rethin...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,453 Views
22 Pages

Category Mapping of Emergency Supplies Classification Standard Based on BERT-TextCNN

  • Qiuxia Zhang,
  • Hanping Hou,
  • Yingjie Ju,
  • Jiandong Yuan,
  • Kun Zhang,
  • Huanhuan Wang and
  • Junhe Chen

10 September 2024

In recent years, the escalation in emergency occurrences has underscored the pressing need for expedient responses in delivering essential supplies. Efficient integration and precise allocation of emergency resources under joint government–ente...

(This article belongs to the Section Supply Chain Management)
  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,986 Views
17 Pages

10 September 2024

An increased interest in the resilience of complex socio-ecological and socio-technical systems has led to a variety of metrics being proposed. An overview of these metrics and their underlying concepts would support identifying useful metrics for ap...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data-Driven Decision Making for Complex Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
8,288 Views
23 Pages

9 September 2024

To achieve sustainable development of social systems, it is necessary to modernize the legal system, which is the foundation of any society, to increase the efficiency of resources and simultaneously optimize the performance of the environment and so...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,382 Views
30 Pages

Method for Developing the System Architecture of Existing Industrial Objects for Digital Representation Tasks

  • Vladimir Badenko,
  • Vladimir Yadykin,
  • Vladimir Kamsky,
  • Arina Mohireva,
  • Andrey Bezborodov,
  • Egor Melekhin and
  • Nikolay Sokolov

9 September 2024

This paper presents a method for creating the system architecture of existing industrial objects based on Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) principles. The method aims to form a digital representation of physical objects, which is crucial in the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Model-Based Systems Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,270 Views
20 Pages

Integrating Order Splitting and Acceptance with Batch Delivery in Parallel Machine Scheduling

  • Hanxing Cui,
  • Qilan Zhao,
  • Huanhuan Wang,
  • Yuliang Guo and
  • Junjie Guo

8 September 2024

Multiple production lines can work together to efficiently manufacture certain products. Thus, when capacity is insufficient, it is necessary to decide whether to develop new production lines to ensure the timely completion of all orders. For example...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,433 Views
27 Pages

7 September 2024

With the profound integration of digital technology and traditional agriculture, the whole industry chain of rural e-commerce, as an advanced system, is reshaping the production, sales, and management models of agriculture and is emerging as a new ca...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,253 Views
24 Pages

7 September 2024

In the era of artificial intelligence, human resource management has undergone significant changes compared to traditional approaches regarding value creation methods and influencing factors. This research aims to utilize grounded theory to comprehen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
2,347 Views
22 Pages

Research on the Game Strategy of Mutual Safety Risk Prevention and Control of Industrial Park Enterprises under Blockchain Technology

  • Chang Su,
  • Jun Deng,
  • Xiaoyang Li,
  • Fangming Cheng,
  • Wenhong Huang,
  • Caiping Wang,
  • Wangbo He and
  • Xinping Wang

6 September 2024

Systematic management of corporate safety risks in industrial parks has become a hot topic. And risk prevention and control mutual aid is a brand-new model in the risk and emergency management of the park. In the context of blockchain, how to incenti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,754 Views
21 Pages

6 September 2024

The quality control of remanufactured products in a closed-loop supply chain (CLSC) can significantly influence consumers’ decision-making, and the contract coordination of CLSC has also become a research hotspot. This paper explores the qualit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Supply Chain Management towards Circular Economy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,557 Views
21 Pages

6 September 2024

Taking the innovation chain (IC) as the perspective, we discuss the effect of digital transformation (DT) on enterprises’ green innovation (GI) using data from Chinese listed companies from 2013 to 2021. The results show that DT has a positive...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Strategic Management in Digital Transformation Era)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,314 Views
29 Pages

5 September 2024

Socio-technical systems (STSs) are systems of systems, synthesising human and IT components that jointly operate to achieve specific goals. Such systems are overly complex but, if designed optimally, they can significantly improve STS performance. Cr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue System of Systems Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,177 Views
16 Pages

Quantifying the Complexity of Nodes in Higher-Order Networks Using the Infomap Algorithm

  • Yude Fu,
  • Xiongyi Lu,
  • Caixia Yu,
  • Jichao Li,
  • Xiang Li and
  • Qizi Huangpeng

3 September 2024

Accurately quantifying the complexity of nodes in a network is crucial for revealing their roles and network complexity, as well as predicting network emergent phenomena. In this paper, we propose three novel complexity metrics for nodes to reflect t...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems Theory and Methodology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,537 Views
26 Pages

3 September 2024

How to efficiently and greenly dismantle abandoned buildings and reuse them is a dilemma facing the building material industry’s low-carbon objective. However, relevant studies ignore the influence mechanism of altruistic preferences of enterpr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Supply Chain Management towards Circular Economy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,139 Views
17 Pages

Innovating Airport Luggage Disinfection Systems with Advanced Technologies and Automation

  • Samer Al-Rabeei,
  • Michal Hovanec,
  • Volodymyr Tymofiiv and
  • Juraj Horkay

2 September 2024

In this article, we point out that luggage disinfection is a key step in stopping the spread of infectious diseases that can be contracted at airports due to viruses and bacteria, which can spread through passenger luggage at airports. To prevent the...

(This article belongs to the Topic Risk Management in Public Sector)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,123 Views
15 Pages

Research on the Dynamics of Word-of-Mouth Influencing Stock Prices

  • Wanglai Li,
  • Huizhang Shen,
  • Zhangxue Huang,
  • Hanzhe Yang and
  • Jidi Zhao

2 September 2024

Word-of-mouth (WOM) can be considered one form of public opinion, reflecting consumers’ views towards product or service quality. With the development of social media, WOM holds influence over investors and subsequently impacts the stock prices...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems Practice in Social Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,465 Views
33 Pages

2 September 2024

A system of incentives can be established to encourage several parties to unite as a community of interest and become jointly committed to the platform economic governance. The platform economy involves progressively more complex subjects of interest...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Systemic Optimization in Sustainable Business Operations: Theory and Practice)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,587 Views
19 Pages

1 September 2024

(1) Background: This research deals with an element of strategic management, namely corporate changes. It applies to production enterprises operating in the countries of the Visegrad Group. Since similar studies in the area of change management in th...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems Theory and Methodology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
6,882 Views
24 Pages

1 September 2024

As environmental pressures intensify and digital technology advances rapidly, many countries, including China, are looking to more effectively heed social and environmental responsibilities by effectively integrating digital technology with tradition...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Systems Analysis of Enterprise Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,301 Views
22 Pages

1 September 2024

The high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin is still facing the issue of imbalance and inadequacy, and it urgently requires the backing and assistance of a well-coordinated and efficient comprehensive transportation network system. Based o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,764 Views
18 Pages

A Flow Shop Scheduling Method Based on Dual BP Neural Networks with Multi-Layer Topology Feature Parameters

  • Hui Mu,
  • Zinuo Wang,
  • Jiaqi Chen,
  • Guoqiang Zhang,
  • Shaocun Wang and
  • Fuqiang Zhang

1 September 2024

Nowadays, the focus of flow shops is the adoption of customized demand in the context of service-oriented manufacturing. Since production tasks are often characterized by multi-variety, low volume, and a short lead time, it becomes an indispensable f...

(This article belongs to the Topic Smart Product Design and Manufacturing on Industrial Internet)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,491 Views
10 Pages

On the Positive Role of Noise and Error in Complex Systems

  • Andrea Roli,
  • Michele Braccini and
  • Pasquale Stano

1 September 2024

Noise and error are usually considered to be disturbances negatively affecting the behavior of a system. Nevertheless, from a systemic perspective, taking into account openness and incompleteness of complex systems, noise and error may assume a creat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Theoretical Issues on Systems Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,514 Views
16 Pages

1 September 2024

Nowadays, online public opinions (OPOs) significantly impact corporate brand value (CBV). To prevent corporate brand crises caused mainly by OPOs, it is essential to detect anomalies in OPOs related to corporate reputation in a timely manner. This st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,318 Views
25 Pages

31 August 2024

The importance of architecture design keeps increasing as the complexity of systems and system-of-systems (SoSs) continues rising. While the architecture frameworks such as the Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF) are commonly used to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Decision Making with Model-Based Systems Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,607 Views
25 Pages

31 August 2024

Lean methodologies, a system widely used in the manufacturing industry, have demonstrated numerous benefits and added significant value to the industry. In the same way that other industries have benefitted from the application of Lean techniques, th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Lean Manufacturing in Industry 4.0)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,818 Views
26 Pages

30 August 2024

Digital technology has the function of information governance, and digital transformation of enterprises may be the key way to identify and restrain ESG greenwashing. Based on the theory of digital empowerment, this study analyzes the influence and m...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems Engineering)

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