Addressing wicked problems in a range of project types

Procedia Computer Science

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages 49-55

  Ireland, Vernon ^a   Rapaport, Barbara ^a   Omarova, Amina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

CSH; Dooyeweerd's suite of aspects; Project categories; SAST; Soft system methodology; SSM; System dynamics; Wicked problems

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896911018     PISSN: 18770509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.procs.2012.09.028     Document Type: Conference Paper

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