Systems Practice in China: New Developments and Cross-Cultural Collaborations

This short paper introduces a special issue of Systemic Practice and Action Research on new developments in Chinese systems practice. It focuses on the recent history of systems thinking in China, describing a paradigm shift that is currently taking place from an "objectivist" to a more pluralistic stance. Details are provided of the Hull–Beijing research program, which has contributed to this paradigm shift. In one way or another, all the papers in this special issue can be seen as having a connection with this research program.     

信息系统工程监理机制研究

讨论了信息系统建设中工程监理机制的概念及必要性,分析了用户方、开发方和监理方的职能及组织关系。在此基础上提出了信息系统工程监理的主要内容,即从对现行管理体制的认知;信息系统开发策略制定;系统分析;系统设计;系统实现及运行维护;监理组织和监理人员等方面进行了研究。该研究对信息系统建设具有一定的理论指导意义。     

Developing Reflective Practice in Information Systems Development: Further Progress on the Gestation of an Evaluative Framework

It is argued in this paper that evaluative activities in relation to systems development have traditionally focussed on the financial worth of the product. This approach has excluded the appraisal of important issues such as the process for building the product, the performance of the systems development team, the methods used and the organisational impact of the implemented System. In response to the traditional approach, which is skewed towards quantification techniques, a three stage framework is proposed. The three stages are iterative. The first being concerned with establishing an appropriate focus and resolution level for the evaluation, the second uses a control model to identify relevant outputs, appropriate sensors and comparators and performance criteria. The third is about selecting more sophisticated paradigms for assessing processes and their outputs. It is contended that although the specific focus of this paper is systems development, the framework could be used in any organisational context where products and services are developed and produced.     

高层管理信息系统(EIS)及其开发策略的研究

分析了可供高层管理者直接使用的计算机信息系统（ＣＩＳ）匮乏的主要原因，指出开发ＥＩＳ是改变这一局面的有效途径。本文还研究了ＥＩＳ的开发策略，提出了一些对将参与ＥＩＳ的论证、设计和实施的专业人员及系统的使用者来说值得共同关注的问题.     

面向对象经理信息系统的系统分析方法

面向对象经理信息系统的分析过程是标识对象描述问题空间、表示用户需求和系统功能的过程.以问题空间分析、用户需求分析和需求描述分析3个阶段从不同的角度分析并标识对象,整个对象标识过程是一个渐进及对系统中对象不断扩充完善的过程,后一阶段不仅是对前一阶段的补充,而且是对前一阶段所标识对象的检验.在对象标识的基础上,建立起面向对象经理信息系统的分析模型--系统的对象关系模型和对象字典.     

Refocusing Systems Analysis of Organizations Through a Semiotic Lens: Interpretive Framework and Method

Recent advances in systems theory have significantly raised its utility for supporting problem-structuring activity in organizations. However, this approach has been inadequately developed for representing and evaluating the nature and outcomes of organizational functioning. Toward that end this paper introduces a new method, called interpretive systems analysis, which incorporates ideas from semiotic theory. Using this method, the complex web of agents, actions, means, and circumstances in organizational functioning may be analytically discriminated into multiple courses of action that are emphasized on dimensions of legitimacy, motivation, and power. An integrative appraisal of key elements and factors shaping organizational performance may then be achieved through the formulation of “systems of significance,” formed of oppositional and associative relations. Organizations can thus be illuminated in terms of principle inconsistencies and tensions shaping their operations. The application and utility of this method is illustrated through a case study of customer service operations.     

Journal of Systems Science and Information

正Aims and Scope Journal of Systems Science and Information(JSSI)is a peer-reviewed multi-disciplinary journal that focuses on systems science and systems engineering,management science,and information science.This journal aims to provide a platform for sharing new developments in the research fields of systems     

Journal of Systems Science and Information

正Aims and Scope Journal of Systems Science and Information(JSSI)is a peer-reviewed multi-disciplinary journal that focuses on systems science and systems engineering,management science,and information science.This journal aims to provide a platform for sharing new developments in the research fields of systems science and management science and promotes applications of these cutting-edge theories and methods     

Journal of Systems Science and Information

正Aims and Scope Journal of Systems Science and Information (JSSI)is a peer-reviewed multi-disciplinary journal that focuses on systems science and systems engineering, management science, and information science.This journal aims to provide a platform for sharing new developments in the research fields of systems     

Journal of Systems Science and Information

正Aims and Scope Journal of Systems Science and Information (JSSI) is a peer-reviewed multi-disciplinary journal that focuses on systems science and systems engineering, management science, and information science.This journal aims to provide a platform for sharing new developments in the research fields of systems science and management science and promotes applications of these cutting-edge theories and methods to real world. Topics covered by this journal include but not limited to the following list:     

Journal of Systems Science and Information

正Aims and Scope Journal of Systems Science and Information(JSSI) is a peer-reviewed multi-disciplinary journal that focuses on systems science and systems engineering, management science, and information science. This journal aims to provide a platform for sharing new developments in the research fields of systems science and management science and promotes applications of these cutting-edge theories and methods to real world. Topics covered by this journal include but not limited to the following list:     

信息系统的属性约简

粗糙集理论是一种新的处理模糊和不确定知识的数学工具 .属性约简是粗糙集理论研究中的重要内容之一 ,现已证明寻找信息系统的最小约简是 NP-hard问题 .本文提出一个基于信息量的属性约简的启发式算法 ,该算法的时间复杂性为 $O( | A|^3 | U| ^2 )$ .通过例子分析 ,表明该算法是有效的.     

Journal of Systems Science and Information

正Aims and Scope JournalofSystemsScienceandInformation(JSSI)isapeer-reviewedmulti-disciplinaryjournalthat focuses on systems science and systems engineering, management science, and information science.     

基于信息量的不完备信息系统属性约简

通过引入信息量和条件信息量,对不完备信息系统中属性的重要性进行了定义;针对不完备数据表和不完备决策表提出了一种基于信息量和条件信息量的属性约简启发式算法,该算法的时间复杂度是多项式的.通过实例说明,该算法能得到信息表的约简和决策表的相对约简.     

Attributional Bias as a Source of Conflict Between Users and Analysts in an Information Systems Development Context—Hypotheses Development

One potential obstacle to effective information systems development involves the conflict between users and developers. It has been argued that information systems development personnel have different perceptions of what constitutes systems effectiveness than do users. System objectives are accomplished from the developer's viewpoint when a system has technical validity. System objectives are accomplished from the user's viewpoint when the system has organizational validity. Differences in the assessment of information systems project success are accentuated when users perceive the project as a failure. Attribution theory, a social psychology theory, is employed here to explain the source and outcome of such conflict. Also discussed are alternative ways of resolving those differences.     

A Systems Approach for Engaging Groups in Global Complexity: Capacity Building Through an Online Course

Sustainability is not simply about changing practices but more centrally about agreeing to change practices together. To achieve such an end, groups need to improve processes for making complex decisions together. An online course was designed and tested linking students in the United States and in Australia. Students engaged in a re-enactment of deliberations based on Hasan Ozbekhan’s “Predicament of Mankind,” which was constructed originally under assignment from the founders of the Club of Rome in 1970. This re-enactment included contemporary research for examples of a set of 49 continuous critical problems of mankind, asynchronous clarification of these problems using a wiki, pair-wise construction of a systems view of problems assessed to be of highest priority by the class, narrative analysis of the structure, and creative suggestions for resolving the systems problem based on resources available today. This report comments on the strengths and challenges identified in an initial application of an approach for building collaborative and systems thinking skills through an online course in a general education curriculum. Findings are particularly meaningful for contemporary policy makers as well as online educators.     

Neuro-Computing Applications in Security ofNetwork Information Systems

1.INTRODUCTIONWiththerapiddevelopmentofinformationindustry,computinginformationsystemshaveenteredanewstage,fromearlymono-processorsystemsfileservicesystemsin70'sandclient/servicesystemsin80'stopresentrisingsystemsbasedonintranet.However,becauseofinformationfluidity,resourcesdistributivityandlinkingopennessinnetworksystems,itiseasyfortheinformationinsystemstosufferattacks.Inotherwords,thesecurityofsystemsisbecomingincreasinglyacute.Therefore,thesecurityofapplicationsystemsistakenmoreandmor…     

管理信息系统的最优k分解方法

本文提出一种从管理信息系统的基本元素——过程和数据类的分析入手,建立信息系统的有向图模型,并运用最优k分解方法进行模型的分解与优化的形式化方法,文中还给出了一个企业管理信息系统的例子来说明方法的应用.     

模糊目标信息系统的属性约简

利用粗糙模糊集的概念定义了模糊目标信息系统的α下(上)分配约简,并讨论了它们同下(上)近似约简、下(上)最大分布约简的关系.相应于下(上)近似约简、下(上)最大分布约简和α下(上)分配约简给出了把模糊目标信息系统变换成对应的一致目标信息系统的方法.证明了变换前的模糊目标信息系统的下(上)近似约简、下(上)最大分布约简和α下(上)分配约简同变换后的对应的一致目标信息系统的属性约简是相同的,从而求模糊目标信息系统的属性约简可转化为求一致目标信息系统的约简.