Combining PSMs with hard or methods: The philosophical and practical challenges

Journal of the Operational Research Society

Volumn 57, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 856-867

  Kotiadis, K ^a,b   Mingers, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

DESM simulation; Hard OR; Health care; Multimethodology; Paradigms; Philosophy of OR; Pluralism; PSMs; SSM

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEALTH CARE; PROBLEM SOLVING;

DESM/SIMULATION; HARD OR; MULTIMETHODOLOGY; PARADIGMS; PHILOSOPHY OF OR; PLURALISM; PSMS; SOFT SYSTEMS METHODOLOGY (SSM);

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 33745552547     PISSN: 01605682     EISSN: 14769360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602147     Document Type: Review

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