Problem Structuring: Methodology in Practice
暫譯: 問題結構化:實務中的方法論

Yearworth, Mike

  • 出版商: Wiley
  • 出版日期: 2024-09-16
  • 售價: $4,330
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$4,114
  • 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)

當前對於運籌學和工程中問題結構化方法的觀點及其在廣泛實踐中的應用前景。

《問題結構化:實踐中的方法論》橋接了運籌學(OR)與工程實踐,基於軟性運籌學的興起及其隨時間發展成為一個獨特的新領域,擴大了運籌學的範疇,以應對在複雜問題背景下的轉型、策略制定和規劃問題。本書以干預過程的方式進行方法論框架的構建,稱為問題結構化方法(PSMs),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,軟性運籌學的興起,實用哲學對運籌學實踐的相關性。
2. 追溯運籌學中的辯論和問題,導致軟性運籌學的興起,對PSMs的比較分析,形成軟性運籌學實踐的通用框架,並考慮在提供PSM干預時的實際考量。
3. 描述工程實踐中問題結構化敏感性的興起,介紹基於層級過程建模(HPM)的新PSM,並通過教學和案例研究進行支持,主張在工程實踐中進行過程性轉變,並與運籌學實踐相關。
4. 評估PSM干預,應用調查,使用群體支持系統,基於機器學習的新發展,重新詮釋軟性運籌學實踐。

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,適合所有「問題的學生」。它適用於任何英國7級(或同等)運籌學、工程或應用社會科學的課程,其中反思性的方法論方法在處理複雜問題時是實踐的基本要求。

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)

邁克·耶爾沃斯 (Mike Yearworth) BSc, PhD, MBA, MBCS, CEng 是埃克塞特大學商學院的管理科學名譽教授。他是歐洲運籌學期刊 (European Journal of Operational Research)的共同主編,以及系統研究與行為科學 (Systems Research and Behavioral Science)的系統工程領域編輯。