Systems social seience: A design inquiry approach for stabilization and reconstruction of social systems

Intelligent Decision Technologies

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 51-74

  Silverman, Barry G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Design inquiry; Social systems; Socio cognitive agents; Systems approach

Indexed keywords

EID: 85013602825     PISSN: 18724981     EISSN: 18758843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/IDT-2010-0069     Document Type: Article

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