ing and Engaging: Two Modes of Systems Thinking Education José-Rodrigo Córdoba-Pachón School of Management, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham TW20 0EX, United Kingdom, [email protected] T paper presents two modes of systems thinking education to help make sense of previous and future experiences in this field as well as in soft operational research in general. Using Abbott...

This paper aims at substantiating a recently introduced categorical theory of`well-behaved' operational semantics. A variety of concrete examples of structural operational rules is modelled categorically illustrating the versatility and modularity of the theory. Further, a novel functorial notion of guardedness is introduced which allows for a general and formal treatment of guarded recursive p...

This paper uses relationships between Vargo and Lusch’s (2004) service-dominant logic (S-D logic) and Alter’s (2008b) of service system fundamentals to explore whether S-D logic provides insight about operational IT service systems. These approaches explicate fundamental ideas at different levels of analysis and for different purposes. S-D logic characterizes intersections between marketing and...

An understanding of community development in resource-based areas must begin with an awareness of what a community is and how it develops. In this article I provide a conceptual foundation for operational definitions of community and community development. The proposed working definitions are grounded in sociological theory and empirical research. This endeavor is timely since so much of our so...

Informational conflicts in operational policies cause agents to run into situations where responding based on the rules in one policy violates the same or another policy. Static checking of these conflicts is infeasible and impractical in a dynamic environment. This paper discusses a practical approach to handling policy conflicts in real-time domains within the context of a hierarchical milita...

Exam timetabling is one of the most important administrative activities in universities (e.g. [4], [8], and [19]). Such problems have been the subject of significant research effort across Artificial Intelligence research and Operational Research since the 1960s. A general exam timetabling problem consists of assigning a set of exams into a limited number of timeslots while satisfying a set of ...

Operational Research (OR) techniques have been applied, from the early stages of the discipline, to a wide variety of issues in education. At the government level, these include questions of what resources should be allocated to education as a whole and how these should be divided amongst the individual sectors of education and the institutions within the sectors. Another pertinent issue concer...