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Systems, Volume 6, Issue 3

September 2018 - 9 articles

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Articles (9)

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
15,465 Views
20 Pages

Applying Systems Thinking to Engineering and Design

  • Jamie P. Monat and
  • Thomas F. Gannon

19 September 2018

The application of Systems Thinking principles to Systems Engineering is synergistic, resulting in superior systems, products, and designs. However, there is little practical information available in the literature that describes how this can be done...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
10,408 Views
31 Pages

An Integrated Participatory Systems Modelling Approach: Application to Construction Innovation

  • Emiliya Suprun,
  • Oz Sahin,
  • Rodney Anthony Stewart,
  • Kriengsak Panuwatwanich and
  • Yaroslav Shcherbachenko

20 August 2018

This paper presents a novel five-stage integrated participatory systems modelling (IPSM) approach that can be used for a range of systems dynamics (SD) applications. The IPSM approach was formulated considering the advantages and disadvantages of exi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
15,335 Views
24 Pages

Systemic Semantics: A Systems Approach to Building Ontologies and Concept Maps

  • David Rousseau,
  • Julie Billingham and
  • Javier Calvo-Amodio

10 August 2018

The field of systemology does not yet have a standardised terminology; there are multiple glossaries and diverse perspectives even about the meanings of fundamental terms. This situation undermines researchers’ and practitioners’ ability...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
9,864 Views
27 Pages

8 August 2018

Designing international development projects is challenging because the complexity of the systems on which they act makes it difficult to identify the best leverage points for intervention. This paper seeks to identify the best combinations of interv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
8,346 Views
15 Pages

Nonlinear Phenomena in Cournot Duopoly Model

  • Pavel Pražák and
  • Jaroslav Kovárník

13 July 2018

The economic world is very dynamic, and most phenomena appearing in this world are mutually interconnected. These connections may result in the emergence of nonlinear relationships among economic agents. Research discussions about different markets&r...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
38 Citations
22,580 Views
14 Pages

Systems Thinking Education—Seeing the Forest through the Trees

  • Sigal Koral Kordova,
  • Moti Frank and
  • Anat Nissel Miller

12 July 2018

Systems thinking is an indispensable tool in comprehending and analyzing real-world phenomena. Observed processes are naturally composed of many interconnected components which ought to be studied jointly rather than individually. Engineering systems...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,944 Views
10 Pages

11 July 2018

Usual reductionism considers systemic, acquired properties as non-systemic, possessed properties. We consider here the non-systemic usages of systems, misunderstood as non-interacting virtual objects or devices, and the misunderstanding between non-c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
26,281 Views
20 Pages

10 July 2018

Systems science methodologies do not have a consistent way of working with worldviews, even though determining stakeholder perspectives is central to systems thinking. In this paper, we propose a comprehensive “Worldview Inquiry Framework&rdquo...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
8 Citations
10,414 Views
15 Pages

26 June 2018

Autonomous production needs to be reliable. Outputs from reliable production systems consistently conform to performance requirements. By contrast, outputs from unreliable production systems often do not conform to performance requirements. Unreliabl...