Cause, effect, efficiency and soft systems models

Journal of the Operational Research Society

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 1993, Pages 333-344

  Gregory, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Efficiency; Information systems; Logic; Modelling; Soft systems methodology

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; EFFICIENCY; FORMAL LOGIC; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; LOGIC PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

SOFT SYSTEMS METHODOLOGY;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 0027578369     PISSN: 01605682     EISSN: 14769360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/jors.1993.63     Document Type: Article

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