Research Catalog

Title

Systems science : addressing global issues / edited by Frank A. Stowell, Duane West and James G. Howell.

Publication

New York : Plenum Press, [1993], ©1993.

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Additional Authors

• Howell, James G.
• Stowell, Frank A.
• United Kingdom Systems Society Conference on Systems Science: Addressing Global Issues (1993 : Paisley, Scotland) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93029670
• West, Daune.

Description

xvii, 659 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.

Series Statement

The Language of science

Uniform Title

Language of science.

Subjects

• Cybernetics
• Systems Analysis
• System analysis > Congresses
• Social sciences > Methodology > Congresses
• Systems Theory
• Social systems > Congresses
• Cybernetics > Congresses
• System theory > Congresses
• Social Sciences
• Congress

Genre/Form

Congress.

Note

• "Proceedings of the United Kingdom Systems Society Conference on Systems Science: Addressing Global Issues, held July 27-30, 1993, in Paisley, Scotland, United Kingdom"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• Plenary Papers -- Systems Science - Addressing Global Issues / David Smith -- Systems Science / Peter Checkland -- The Actor as a Perfect Citizen / Gerard de Zeeuw -- Information Systems and Systems Science / Frank Stowell -- Engineering Systems / Malcolm K. Crowe -- Giving Requisite Variety to Strategy and Information Systems / Raul Espejo -- United Kingdom Higher Education - A Systems Failure? / Geoff Peters and Joyce Fontune -- Systems Practitioners: Facilitators of the Bringing - Forth of Social Systems / Michael C. Jackson -- A Theoretical Framework for an Interpretive-Systemic Study of Public Health Services in Venezuela / Ramses Fuenmayor -- Business Systems -- Introduction / Colin van Orton -- Metagame Analysis as a Tool for Longitudinal Analysis of Multi-Actorial Decision Processes / Andrea Debernardi -- Cultural Contradictions Impeding Global Competitiveness of American High-Technology Firms / David B. Keever -- Systems Methodologies and Enabling Technologies: A Role for Group Support Systems? / Judy McKay and Peter Marshall -- The Evaluation of IT Investment / Annet Nottingham -- Heuristic Methods as an Instrument to Develop a Manager / Kazimierz Perechuda and Wojciech Cieslinski -- Suprahuman Systems and Management: Steering in Jeopardy? / Fenton F. Robb -- Using an Organisation Wide Consultation Approach for the Creation of Information and Information Technology Strategies / Alan Warr -- Complex Systems -- Introduction / Richard Beeby -- Systems Synthesis / Peter Dunderdale -- Mapping Conceptual Models on to the Real World / Frank H. Gregory -- Systems Modelling with Natural Language and Fuzzy Logic / J. Korn, F. Huss and J. Cumbers -- Critical Systems -- Introduction / Frank Stowell -- Practising Freedom / Robert L. Flood -- Ecology and Evaluation: The Macro-Quality Perspective / Amanda Gregory -- 'Non-Traditional' Logistics - A Step Forward? / Bridget Mears-Young -- Critical Systems Thinking, Post-Modernism and the Philosophy of Richard Rorty / M.W.J. Spaul -- Cybernetics -- Introduction / Richard Beeby -- Nonlinear Dynamics and Fire Risk Assessment / Alan Beard, Dougal Drysdale, Paul Holborn and Steven Bishop -- A Cybernetic View of Quality Management / Diane Bowling -- Innofusion: Feedback in the Innovation Process / James Fleck -- Organizational Cybernetics / Arnulf Hauan and Jon Arild Johannessen -- Moving Management Around the Organisation or How to Make Jobs for the Boys / Simon Lilley -- Cybernetics & the Social: Conversations with Unspeakable Machines / Rolland Munro -- Linking SSM with VSM for Information System Management / Graham Paton -- Cybernetics in Management / Angus J. Quin -- A Workshop Methodology Based on the "Viable System Model" of Stafford Beer / M. Haynes and N.D. Stewart -- Educational Systems -- Introduction / A.N. Hutchison -- Reading as a Complex Phenomenon / E. Andreewsky, F. Cochu, C. Parisse and D. Orsoni-Maillard -- Design of Vocational Education Systems: A Systems Science Contribution to the "Competences" Debates / Sylvia Brown -- Designing an MBA Curriculum for Information Systems Managers: An Analysis of Contextual Factors / Sadri Gilani and Paul Northcott -- Theseus - A Model for Global Connectivity / Roger J. Harnden and Roy Stringer -- Problem-Solving Skills within the Curriculum: A Case for a "Softer" Approach / Brian Hopkins -- Creativity and Science Ecology of Mind: The Future Sight of Science has Begun / Paolo Manzelli -- Sport Training as an Open System / Kazimierz Perechuda and Wojciech Cieslinski -- Introducing Systems Thinking into Mathematics Learning / Neil Pitcher -- Systems Education: Is There a Mass Delivery Approach? / John Robson and Graham Paton -- Computer-Based Methods of Knowledge Acquisition and Elicitation in Terms of the Subjective Representations and Teaching of Complex Domains / Mark H. Stansfield -- Developments in the Automation of SSM Tutorials Using Multimedia Technology / Frank Stowell, Daune West and Valerie Javelaud -- Environmental Systems, Social Systems, and Health-Systems -- Introduction / Frank Stowell -- Systems Science and the Alternatives to the Changes of Soil in Areas of Traditional Agriculture / A.J. Hernandez, C. Jimenez and J. Pastor -- A Systems Approach to Environmental Management / Margi Levy and Michael Synnott -- A Systems Approach to Social Innovation / Gerard Fairtlough -- Automation Technology as a Human Tool for Accomplishing Human Purposes / Elohim J.L. and Eduardo Oliva Lopez -- Health for All and Community Participation / Gilbert Mansell and Helen Pearson -- Information Systems -- Introduction / Frank Stowell -- On the IncommensurabiIity of Hard and Soft Systems Approaches to Information Systems Provision / Richard B. Beeby -- Knowledge Elicitation: First Step Towards Managing Floating Information in Financial Sectors / A. Behrooz and G. Roushanbakhti -- Information Requirements: A Systems and Knowledge Based Approach / Louis C-Y Cheung and Tony Holden -- They Shoot Werewolves, Don't They? / Kevin G. Doyle -- Function-Oriented Data Modelling / Jun-Kang Feng -- Conceptual Modelling and DBS/KBS Design / Jun-Kang Feng -- The Algorithmic Nature of Problem Solving / F.J. Garlick and G.L. Leonard -- Syntax and Semantic Analysis of Mission Statements / F.J. Garlick and I.R. Lightfoot -- Sublimating Methodologies: The Fallacy of 'The Right Thing Right'? / James Gilligan -- Application-Oriented Tools for Software Development / Donald Millington, Edwin Gray and Iain M. Tulloch -- How to Deal with Wicked Problems Using a New Type of Information System / Severin Isenmann -- Metaphorical Thinking and Information Systems: The Example of the Mechanistic Metaphor / Richard Kamm -- Improving the Impact of Systems Thinking on Information Systems Development / M.A.R. Kirby -- Towards a Multimedia Based New Information Concept / P. Dagorret, A. Gastambide, M. Larrasquet and J. Meyranx -- Towards an Interpretative Form of Data Analysis for the Soft Systems Methodology / P.J. Lewis -- Intelligent Assistance in the Information Systems Design Process / Michael Lloyd-Williams -- Information Systems Development Systems: What Gives? / Yasmin Merali -- A Strategy of Engagement: Knowledge Elicitation For Augmentative Systems Development / Ian M. Neale -- Managing is in Global Companies / Richard J. Ormerod -- Kaizen: The Japanese Approach to I.T / Peter Linecar and David Preston -- Interpretive Analytics and Critical Information Systems: A Framework for Analysis / Stephen K. Probert -- Software Quality - Can We Really Afford It? / Neil Richards -- Accessibility & Utilisation of Organisations Newest Asset: Information / Richard Rolfe -- Applying Soft and Hard Systems Approaches to a Technical Problem / Margaret Ross and Geoff Staples -- Linguistic Categories in Knowledge Based Systems / Robert A. Stephens and John G. Gammack -- Enterprise Design - A Total Systems Approach to Information Systems Development? / David C. Sutton -- The Role of Active Information Systems in Creating and Sustaining A Learning Organisation / A.J. Walkden and J.R.G. Wood -- User Considerations in Communicating Information Technology Security Requirements / Adrian R. Warman -- Resource Object Data Manager: Structured Approach to Systems and Network Management / Wita Wojtkowski and W. Gregory Wojtkowski -- Information Systems Development Education: Assumptions and Practice / Stanislaw Wrycza and Witold Rybinski -- User Satisfaction as a Measure of Information System Effectiveness / James Y.L. Thong, Chee-Sing Yap and K.S. Raman -- Application of Information Technology in Small Business in Slovenia / Borut Verber and Joze Zupancic -- End-User Computing Environment: A Case Study / Joze Zupancic -- Manufacturing Systems -- Introduction / C. Irgens -- Symbolic Manipulation CAD for Parameterized Families of Systems / Octavian Pastravanu, Mihail Voicu, Laurentiu Isopescu and Radu Calinescu --
• Support Systems for Total Quality / Barbara M. Savage -- Production and Information in Systems / Bernd Schiemenz -- Systems Design and Concurrent Engineering - An Organisational Perspective / Carys Siemieniuch and Murray Sinclair -- Strategic IS and Systems Methodologies -- Introduction / James G. Howell -- Some Areas of Economic Theory Viewed Systemically / Tony Brauer -- "Am I Using A Systems Approach?" - A Framework for Response / Gordon Dyer -- Experience of Teaching the Systems-Based Methodology of Interactive Management / F.R. Janes, R.K. Ellis and K. Hammer -- A Contingency Approach for the Selection of a Research Methodology (RM) / Louis Jacques Filion -- Vulnerable Systems, Failure and Disaster / Tom Horlick-Jones, Joyce Fortune and Geoff Peters -- The Systems Law of Ordinary People / Peter Haine -- New Directions in the Use of Structured Tools in Requirements Engineering at Glasgow Polytechnic / Alan Hogarth and Gopal Rao -- Towards the Case for More Deliberate Strategic IS / J.G. Howell -- Macrame, A Tool to Support the Analyst in Organization / Maria Franca Norese -- Business and Academic Collaboration in a Systems Project / Keith Sawyer and Colin van Orton -- Integrating Scientific Disciplines: An Evergreen Challenge to Systems Science / Olav Solem -- A Surprising Union? - Soft Systems Analysis and Sociometry / Roger W. Stewart -- Organisations Without "System": Working with Holons Against Universality? / Julie Travis and Duane Truex III -- Hermeneutic Approaches to Learning Methodology / Heather Watson and Trevor Wood-Harper -- The Changing Role of System Dynamics / Eric F. Wolstenholme -- Information Systems in Support of Resource Management in the Community / Carys L.Y. Parker, Prokash Chatterjee and Bob Wood -- Theory and Concepts -- Introduction / John Gammack -- Self-Referential Systems Theory: A Discussion of Some Theoretical Developments / Michael C. Charlton -- Desirability and Feasibility of Linking 'Soft' Systems Methodology [SSM] with Structured Methodologies / Nimal Jayaratna and Brian D'Arcy -- Systems Science: A New Imperialism? / David G. Jenkins -- Metaphors as Seen by a Knowledge Elicitor / Ali Behrooz and Garry Marshall.

ISBN

0306445220

LCCN

93019328

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries