Designing a Water Resources Management Decision Support System: An Application of the WSR Approach

Systemic Practice and Action Research

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 59-70

  Gu, Jifa ^a   Tang, Xijin ^b  

^a JAPAN ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF SYSTEMS SCIENCE   (China)

Author keywords

China; Decision support systems; Human relations; Renli; Shili; Systems engineering; Systems methodology; Water resources management; WSR; Wuli

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034409916     PISSN: 1094429X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009571522164     Document Type: Article

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