Combining problem structuring methods with simulation: The philosophical and practical challenges

Discrete-Event Simulation and System Dynamics for Management Decision Making

Volumn 9781118349021, Issue , 2014, Pages 52-75

  Kotiadis, Kathy ^a   Mingers, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hard OR; Multimethodology; Paradigms; Problem structuring methods; Simulation; Soft OR

Indexed keywords

PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS;

COGNITIVE LEVELS; DISCRETE-EVENT SIMULATIONS; HARD OR; INTERMEDIATE CARES; MULTIMETHODOLOGY; PARADIGM; PROBLEM-STRUCTURING METHODS; SIMULATION; SOFT OR; SOFT SYSTEMS METHODOLOGY;

DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION;

EID: 84926405515     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118762745.ch04     Document Type: Chapter

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