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Systems, Volume 8, Issue 2

June 2020 - 13 articles

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Articles (13)

  • Communication
  • Open Access
101 Citations
61,191 Views
10 Pages

Developing a Preliminary Causal Loop Diagram for Understanding the Wicked Complexity of the COVID-19 Pandemic

  • Oz Sahin,
  • Hengky Salim,
  • Emiliya Suprun,
  • Russell Richards,
  • Stefen MacAskill,
  • Simone Heilgeist,
  • Shannon Rutherford,
  • Rodney A. Stewart and
  • Cara D. Beal

18 June 2020

COVID-19 is a wicked problem for policy makers internationally as the complexity of the pandemic transcends health, environment, social and economic boundaries. Many countries are focusing on two key responses, namely virus containment and financial...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,828 Views
18 Pages

Effectiveness of the Early Response to COVID-19: Data Analysis and Modelling

  • Edoardo Bertone,
  • Martin Jason Luna Juncal,
  • Rafaela Keiko Prado Umeno,
  • Douglas Alves Peixoto,
  • Khoi Nguyen and
  • Oz Sahin

18 June 2020

Governments around the world have introduced a number of stringent policies to try to contain COVID-19 outbreaks, but the relative importance of such measures, in comparison to the community response to these restrictions, the amount of testing condu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
9,024 Views
20 Pages

18 June 2020

The shift towards Product-Service Systems (PSS) stresses the need to embed new and unique capabilities in Decision Support Systems, with the aim of helping the engineering team in handling the pool of information and knowledge available during decisi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,703 Views
21 Pages

A Complex Systems Analysis of the Water-Energy Nexus in Malaysia

  • Andrew Huey Ping Tan,
  • Eng Hwa Yap and
  • Yousif Abdalla Abakr

15 June 2020

Water security plays a crucial role in maintaining livelihoods, especially emerging economies. In Malaysia, understanding the inter-relationships of water within the water-energy-food (WEF) nexus is at its infancy. This paper investigates the interac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
12,843 Views
17 Pages

Korea initiated a new experiment, called a dynamic response system for open democratic societies as a principle to respond to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). The global pandemic of COVID-19 led to a surge in demand for healthcare medical masks and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
8,073 Views
12 Pages

The simulation of population dynamics and social processes is of great interest in nonlinear systems. Recently, many scholars have paid attention to the possible applications of population dynamics models, such as the competitive Lotka–Volterra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,348 Views
20 Pages

This work studies a hybrid manufacturing–remanufacturing system with a sorting line and disposal. In particular, it models a company that collects used product, remanufactures returned products that have been evaluated as suitable to be recover...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,186 Views
12 Pages

Non-Standard Analysis for Regularization of Geometric-Zeno Behaviour in Hybrid Systems

  • Ayman Aljarbouh,
  • Muhammad Fayaz and
  • Muhammad Shuaib Qureshi

Geometric-Zeno behaviour is a highly challenging problem in the analysis (including simulation) of hybrid systems. Geometric-Zeno can be defined as an infinite number of discrete mode switches in a finite time interval. Typically, for hybrid models e...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
23 Citations
28,268 Views
19 Pages

Practical Applications of Systems Thinking to Business

  • Jamie Monat,
  • Matthew Amissah and
  • Thomas Gannon

In this paper we summarize the research on Systems Thinking for business management and explore several examples of business failures due to a lack of application of Systems Thinking, with an ultimate goal of offering a Systems Thinking approach that...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,266 Views
24 Pages

22 April 2020

Critical infrastructure is a complex system whose disruption or failure results in significant impacts on state interests, i.e., territorial security, economy, and the basic needs of the population. The current European Critical Infrastructure Protec...

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