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Systems, Volume 7, Issue 2

2019 June - 13 articles

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Articles (13)

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
8,751 Views
24 Pages

21 June 2019

An analytics-empowered enterprise system looks to many organizations to be a far-fetched target, owing to the vast amounts of factors that need to be controlled across the implementation lifecycle activities, especially during usage and maintenance p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
8,127 Views
28 Pages

Measuring the Change Towards More Sustainable Mobility: MUV Impact Evaluation Approach

  • Brunella Caroleo,
  • Nicola Morelli,
  • Enza Lissandrello,
  • Andrea Vesco,
  • Salvatore Di Dio and
  • Stefania Mauro

20 June 2019

Urban areas can be considered the ground for the challenges related to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The objective of shaping cities as human settlement that will see a more inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable future is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,159 Views
18 Pages

15 June 2019

The present paper proposes a model for evaluating environmental, social, and economic impacts exerted by the diffusion of electric vehicles (EVs), which is a phenomenon that can significantly affect the achievement of some of the objectives set by th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
8,015 Views
33 Pages

Examining past research using content analysis can provide detailed information about the trends a discipline has displayed over years or decades. Disciplines such as software engineering and hospitality management have used methods for analyzing top...

  • Concept Paper
  • Open Access
22 Citations
14,103 Views
8 Pages

Given the different types of artifacts and their various evaluation methods, one of the main challenges faced by researchers in design science research (DSR) is choosing suitable and efficient methods during the artifact evaluation phase. With the em...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
10,057 Views
23 Pages

This paper presents the development of a novel system dynamics (SD) model for better understanding the interrelation and feedback mechanism between the wastewater collection (WWC) and wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) systems. Causal loop diagrams (C...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
83 Citations
27,342 Views
19 Pages

Making Sense of Complexity: Using SenseMaker as a Research Tool

  • Susara E. Van der Merwe,
  • Reinette Biggs,
  • Rika Preiser,
  • Charmaine Cunningham,
  • David J. Snowden,
  • Karen O’Brien,
  • Marcus Jenal,
  • Marietjie Vosloo,
  • Sonja Blignaut and
  • Zhen Goh

There is growing interest in studying processes of human sensemaking, as this strongly influences human and organizational behavior as well as complex system dynamics due to the diverse lenses people use to interpret and act in the world. The Cogniti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
8,735 Views
18 Pages

Commonality in Liquidity Indices: The Emerging European Stock Markets

  • Barbara Będowska-Sójka and
  • Krzysztof Echaust

28 April 2019

The aim of the paper is to examine commonality in liquidity indices across emerging European stock markets. Five markets are included in the study: Hungarian, Czech, Polish, Russian and Turkish, in the period from 2008 to 2017. We propose liquidity i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
9,319 Views
22 Pages

UCTM—An Ambidextrous Service Innovation Framework—A Bottom-Up Approach to Combine Human- and Technology-Centered Service Design

  • Wolfgang Vorraber,
  • Dietmar Neubacher,
  • Birgit Moesl,
  • Julia Brugger,
  • Sigmar Stadlmeier and
  • Siegfried Voessner

18 April 2019

Digital innovation is a key success factor for business enterprises and organizations concerned with public safety. Increasingly shorter technology cycles produce a stream of highly promising gadgets and smart devices and this innovative provision op...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
7,390 Views
14 Pages

What Differentiates Poor and Good Outcome Psychotherapy? A Statistical-Mechanics-Inspired Approach to Psychotherapy Research

  • Giulio de Felice,
  • Franco F. Orsucci,
  • Andrea Scozzari,
  • Omar Gelo,
  • Gabriele Serafini,
  • Silvia Andreassi,
  • Nicoletta Vegni,
  • Giulia Paoloni,
  • Gloria Lagetto and
  • Alessandro Giuliani
  • + 1 author

16 April 2019

Statistical mechanics investigates how emergent properties of macroscopic systems (such as temperature and pressure) relate to microscopic state fluctuations. The underlying idea is that global statistical descriptors of order and variability can mon...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
11,322 Views
22 Pages

A Preliminary Design-Phase Security Methodology for Cyber–Physical Systems

  • Bryan Carter,
  • Stephen Adams,
  • Georgios Bakirtzis,
  • Tim Sherburne,
  • Peter Beling,
  • Barry Horowitz and
  • Cody Fleming

4 April 2019

Despite “cyber” being in the name, cyber–physical systems possess unique characteristics that limit the applicability and suitability of traditional cybersecurity techniques and strategies. Furthermore, vulnerabilities to cyber&ndas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
81 Citations
11,974 Views
12 Pages

The Theory of Knowledge Fields: A Thermodynamics Approach

  • Constantin Bratianu and
  • Ruxandra Bejinaru

29 March 2019

The emergence of knowledge economy and knowledge management revealed the need for reconsidering the concept of knowledge in a larger framework than that created by philosophers from ancient times. While the epistemology as a theory of knowledge and j...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
12,971 Views
21 Pages

28 March 2019

Some authors suggest that transitioning requirements engineering from the traditional statements in natural language with shall clauses to model-based requirements within a Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) environment could improve communicatio...

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