A holistic frame-of-reference for modelling social systems

Kybernetes

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 851-864

  Sice, Petia ^a   French, Ian ^b  

^a NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b TEESSIDE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cybernetics; Modelling; Social dynamics

Indexed keywords

CYBERNETICS; DYNAMICS; MODELS; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

COGNITIVE SCIENCE; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; EDUCATIONAL CONTEXT; FRAME OF REFERENCE; NON-LINEAR DYNAMICS; SOCIAL DYNAMICS; TOOLS AND METHODS; TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

EID: 33745165286     PISSN: 0368492X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03684920610662638     Document Type: Article

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