System and actor perspectives on sociotechnical systems

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 981-992

  de Bruijn, Hans ^a   Herder, Paulien M ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Actor networks; Complex systems; Design; Engineering systems; Systems engineering; Systems of systems

Indexed keywords

ACTOR NETWORKS; COMPLEX SYSTEMS; ENGINEERING SYSTEMS; FULL INTEGRATION; SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES; SOCIOTECHNICAL SYSTEMS; SYSTEMS OF SYSTEMS; TECHNICAL SYSTEMS;

SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; TERMINOLOGY;

LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS;

EID: 69649088767     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2009.2025452     Document Type: Article

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