The conceptualization of the notion of a system in systems engineering, as exemplified in, for instance, the engineering standard IEEE Std 1220-1998, is problematic when applied to the design of socio-technical systems. This is argued using Intelligent Transportation Systems as an example. A preliminary conceptualization of socio-technical systems is introduced which includes technical and soci...

The First International Workshop on Requirements Engineering for Social Computing (RESC’11) was held in Trento on August 29, 2011, in conjunction with the 19th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference. The aim of the workshop was to explore the relationship between requirements engineering and social computing. The workshop consisted of eight technical papers, an invited talk, and...

Many retention studies focus on which students enter engineering or how long engineering students persist. We propose studying an alternate pathway, students who switch into engineering from other majors. Examining such pathways reveals a previously understudied aspect of the engineering pipeline and may be leveraged through institutional policies and programs designed for attracting engineerin...

1 Department of Finance, School of Business, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China 2 Research Center for Econophysics, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China 3 Institute of Systems Engineering, College of Management and Economics, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China 4 China Center for Social Computing and Analytics, Tianjin University, Tianjin...

The British utilitarian philosopher and social engineer, Jeremy Bentham in 1780 coined the modern usage of the term ‘international’ with reference to International Law (Bentham 1996). In the nineteenth century the main usage of the adjective ‘international’ was with respect to international exchange and the relations between principalities, nations and empires. Nevertheless, the theory and prac...

Department of Physics, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan 52900, Israel CAS Key Lab of Theoretical Physics, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics & CAS Key Lab of Soft Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China Faculty of Physics and Electronics, Hube...