Problem Structuring: Methodology in Practice

Yearworth, Mike

  • 出版商: Wiley
  • 出版日期: 2024-09-16
  • 售價: $4,240
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$4,028
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 368
  • 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
  • ISBN: 1119744822
  • ISBN-13: 9781119744825
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商品描述

Current perspectives on approaches to problem structuring in operational research and engineering and prospects for problem structuring methods applicable to a wide range of practice.

Bridging between operational research (OR) and engineering practice, Problem Structuring: Methodology in Practice is grounded in the emergence of soft OR and its development over time as a distinctively new field, broadening the scope of OR to deal with issues of transforming, strategising, and planning in the context of wicked problems. The book is centred on a methodological framing of intervention processes known as problem structuring methods (PSMs) and the techniques presented are suitable for practitioners across a broad range of disciplines.

Written by a highly qualified professor of engineering and management, Problem Structuring: Methodology in Practice contains four linked sections that cover:

  1. Problem formulation when dealing with wicked problems, justification for a methodological approach, the emergence of soft OR, the relevance of pragmatic philosophy to OR practice.
  2. Traces debates and issues in OR leading to the emergence of soft OR, comparative analysis of PSMs leading to a generic framework for soft OR practice, addressing practical considerations in delivering PSM interventions.
  3. Charts the emergence of a problem structuring sensibility in engineering practice, introduces a new PSM based on hierarchical process modelling (HPM) supported by teaching and case studies, makes the case for a processual turn in engineering practice supported by HPM with relevance to OR practice.
  4. Evaluation of PSM interventions, survey of applications, use of group support systems, new developments supported by machine learning, recontextualising soft OR practice.

Problem Structuring: Methodology in Practice is a thought-provoking and highly valuable resource relevant to all "students of problems." It is suitable for any UK Level 7 (or equivalent) programme in OR, engineering, or applied social science where a reflective, methodological approach to dealing with wicked problems is an essential requirement for practice.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

當前對於運營研究和工程中問題結構化方法的觀點及其在廣泛實踐中適用的問題結構化方法的前景。

《問題結構化:實踐中的方法論》架起了運營研究(OR)與工程實踐之間的橋樑,基於軟性運營研究的出現及其隨時間發展成為一個獨特的新領域,擴展了運營研究的範疇,以應對在複雜問題背景下的轉型、策略制定和規劃問題。本書以問題結構化方法(PSMs)為中心,這是一種干預過程的方法論框架,所呈現的技術適合於各種學科的實踐者。

本書由一位高素質的工程與管理教授撰寫,包含四個相互關聯的部分,涵蓋:

1. 在處理複雜問題時的問題表述,方法論方法的正當性,軟性運營研究的出現,實用哲學對運營研究實踐的相關性。
2. 追溯運營研究中的辯論和問題,導致軟性運營研究的出現,對問題結構化方法的比較分析,形成軟性運營研究實踐的通用框架,並考慮在提供問題結構化方法干預時的實際考量。
3. 描繪工程實踐中問題結構化敏感性的出現,介紹基於層級過程建模(HPM)的新問題結構化方法,並通過教學和案例研究支持,主張在工程實踐中進行過程轉向,與運營研究實踐相關。
4. 評估問題結構化方法的干預,應用調查,使用群體支持系統,基於機器學習的新發展,重新詮釋軟性運營研究實踐。

《問題結構化:實踐中的方法論》是一本引人深思且極具價值的資源,對所有“問題的學生”都具有相關性。它適合任何英國7級(或同等)運營研究、工程或應用社會科學的課程,這些課程要求對複雜問題採取反思性的方法論方法。

作者簡介

Mike Yearworth BSc, PhD, MBA, MBCS, CEng, is Emeritus Professor of Management Science at the University of Exeter Business School. He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Operational Research and the Systems Engineering Field Editor for Systems Research and Behavioral Science.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Mike Yearworth BSc, PhD, MBA, MBCS, CEng 是埃克塞特大學商學院的名譽教授。他是《歐洲運籌學期刊》的共同主編,以及《系統研究與行為科學》的系統工程領域編輯。