This guide is designed for systems researchers - emerging and seasoned - searching for holistic approaches of inquiry into complexity, which the Systems Sciences provide. The authors share insight into the foundations of research that are not only systematic in terms of rigor, but systemic in...

This is the first book to examine the linkages among natural and organizational accidents and disasters in the modern era and clarifies the mechanisms involved and the significance of emerging problems, from the aging of vital infrastructure for the supply of water, gas, oil, and electricity to...

This book provides the state of the art in the simulation and gaming study field by systematically collecting excellent papers presented at the 46th International Simulation and Gaming Association annual conference held in Kyoto 17-25 July 2015. Simulation and gaming has been used in a wide...

In this book, the functions and dynamics of enterprises are explained with the use of anthropological methods. The chapters are based on anthropological research that has continued mainly as an inter-university research project, which is named Keiei Jinruigaku, of the National Museum of...

This is the first book that summarizes the 20-year history of service innovation research and combines it with the future need to adopt a systems view in the field of service research. The book emphasizes that the most urgent issues of today’s economies - the development of welfare and...

Chapter 1 Systemic Synthesis and Metaphysics: Eastern versus Western Thinking -- Chapter 2 Multiple Criteria Ranking in Future Network Management -- Chapter 3 Evolutionary Knowledge Creation from an Eastern Perspective -- Chapter 4 Data Mining of Telecommunications Data as an Example of Systemic...

Supporting Decision Making for a Republic Under a Complex System -- Value Co-creation Platform as Part of an Integrative Group Model-Building Process in Policy Development in Indonesia -- The Effect of Sharing Information on Learning Process in Experimental Duopoly Game: A Case from Indonesia --...

1 Creating Social Systems (Gary S. Metcalf) -- 2 An Epic Learning Journey: From the Club of Rome to Dialogic Design Science and DEMOSOPHIA (Alexander N. Christakis) -- 3 Cybernetics of Governance: The Cybersyn Project 1971–1973 (Raul Espejo) -- 4 Systemic Design Principles for Complex Social...