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Engineering Socio-Technical Systems

A special issue of Systems (ISSN 2079-8954).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2013) | Viewed by 27059

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Interests: systems engineering and architecting methodology; complex systems and complexity theory; systems modeling and simulation; mathematical methods in systems engineering and architecting; project management; system-of-systems acquisition; enterprise transformation

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Keywords

  • socio-technical systems
  • technological systems
  • social systems
  • management systems
  • complex systems
  • sensor networks
  • systems engineering
  • systems architecting
  • systems engineering management
  • complexity
  • network theory
  • decision theory
  • operations research

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Engineering Hybrid Learning Communities: The Case of a Regional Parent Community
by Sven Strickroth and Niels Pinkwart
Systems 2014, 2(4), 393-424; https://doi.org/10.3390/systems2040393 - 26 Sep 2014
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We present an approach (and a corresponding system design) for supporting regionally bound hybrid learning communities (i.e., communities which combine traditional face-to-face elements with web based media such as online community platforms, e-mail and SMS newsletters). The goal of the example [...] Read more.
We present an approach (and a corresponding system design) for supporting regionally bound hybrid learning communities (i.e., communities which combine traditional face-to-face elements with web based media such as online community platforms, e-mail and SMS newsletters). The goal of the example community used to illustrate the approach was to support and motivate (especially hard-to-reach underprivileged) parents in the education of their young children. The article describes the design process used and the challenges faced during the socio-technical system design. An analysis of the community over more than one year indicates that the hybrid approach works better than the two separated “traditional” approaches separately. Synergy effects like advertising effects from the offline trainings for the online platform and vice versa occurred and regular newsletters turned out to have a noticeable effect on the community. Full article
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Towards a Metamodel to Support the Joint Optimization of Socio Technical Systems
by Paola Di Maio
Systems 2014, 2(3), 273-296; https://doi.org/10.3390/systems2030273 - 25 Jun 2014
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Designing and implementing functional Socio Technical Systems (STS) is becoming increasingly important, as technologies become more pervasive and critical to everyday life. Socio technical systems are said to be efficient and useful when they are “jointly optimized” yet few system designers understand what [...] Read more.
Designing and implementing functional Socio Technical Systems (STS) is becoming increasingly important, as technologies become more pervasive and critical to everyday life. Socio technical systems are said to be efficient and useful when they are “jointly optimized” yet few system designers understand what joint optimization is, and how to achieve it. The paper explains the core tenets of Joint Optimization and identifies the need for artifacts to support the built in design of joint optimization in socio technical systems from the early stages of development. JOM (Joint Optimization Metamodel) is proposed, as a cognitive artifact to help conceptualize and model joint optimization, and five types of JO are identified resulting from conceptual evaluation of the metamodel. Full article
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