When systems thinking is not a natural act

2010 IEEE International Systems Conference Proceedings, SysCon 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 184-189

  Valerdi, Ricardo ^a   Rouse, William B ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Systems engineering competencies; Systems thinking

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; DEMAND AND SUPPLY; SURFACE FEATURE; SYSTEMS THINKING;

PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

SYSTEM THEORY;

EID: 77954445613     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SYSTEMS.2010.5482446     Document Type: Conference Paper

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