Keyword

soft systems

Description: Soft systems are approaches to understanding and addressing complex, ill-structured problems involving multiple perspectives and human activity.

Primary topic: Complex Systems and Decision Making (27%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q613474

OpenAlex ID: keywords/soft-systems

Systems Methodology for the Management Sciences

1991 · Michael C. Jackson · Contemporary systems thinking · 614

Multi-criteria decision analysis in spatial decision support: the ASSESS analytic hierarchy process and the role of quantitative methods and spatially explicit analysis

2004 · Michael J. Hill, Robert Braaten, et al. · Environmental Modelling & Software · 146

The emergence of knowledge systems thinking: A changing perception of relationships among innovation, knowledge process and configuration

1992 · Niels Röling · Knowledge, technology & policy/Knowledge in society/Knowledge, technology, & policy · 142

Systems thinking and practices in the education of agriculturalists

1984 · Richard J. Bawden, Robert D. Macadam, et al. · Agricultural Systems · 124

Human factors/ergonomics as a systems discipline? “The human use of human beings” revisited

2013 · Erik Hollnagel · Applied Ergonomics · 97

Rethinking the implementation of project management: A Value Adding Path Map approach

2010 · Qian Shi · International Journal of Project Management · 87

Linking stakeholder visions with resource allocation scenarios and multi-criteria assessment

2012 · Evelina Trutnevyte, Michael Stauffacher, et al. · European Journal of Operational Research · 67

Evaluating the application of collaborative learning to the Wenatchee fire recovery planning effort

2001 · Keith A Blatner, Matthew S Carroll, et al. · Environmental Impact Assessment Review · 63

Integrated ecological models: simulation of socio-cultural constraints on ecological dynamics

1997 · W.E. Grant, Paul B. Thompson · Ecological Modelling · 60

Problems of measurement in soft systems

2005 · L. Finkelstein · Measurement · 58

Hard and soft systems

1995 · David Kirk · International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management · 57

Categorizing Barriers to Energy Efficiency in Buildings

2015 · Jonas Anund Vogel, Per Lundqvist, et al. · Energy Procedia · 52

PDF

Guidance on applying the viable system model

2015 · Sandra Hildbrand, Shamim Bodhanya · Kybernetes · 50

Research in hospitality systems and technology

1998 · David Kirk, Ray Pine · International Journal of Hospitality Management · 45

Robotic Softness: An Adaptive Robotic Fabrication Process for Woven Structures

2016 · Giulio Brugnaro, Ehsan Baharlou, et al. · ACADIA quarterly · 40

PDF

Constructivist instructional design (C-ID) : foundations, models, and examples

2009 · Jerry Willis · 40

The role of farming systems group approaches in achieving sustainability in Australian agriculture

2005 · A. M. Ridley · Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture · 40

Sustaining patient and public involvement in research: A case study of a research centre

2013 · Clare Jinks, Pam Carter, et al. · Journal of Care Services Management · 39

PDF

Ethics and OR: Operationalising discourse ethics

2010 · John Mingers · European Journal of Operational Research · 36

Knowledge management: a review of the field and of OR's contribution

2009 · J S Edwards, B Ababneh, et al. · Journal of the Operational Research Society · 34

Recent progress in pressure and temperature tactile sensors: Principle, classification, integration and outlook

2021 · Jiajie Yu, Ke Zhang, et al. · Soft Science · 32

PDF

Conceptual Maturity Model for Sustainable Construction

2013 · Cheng Siew Goh, Steve Rowlinson · Journal of Legal Affairs and Dispute Resolution in Engineering and Construction · 32

A Systems Approach for Modeling Interactions Among the Sustainable Development Goals Part 2

2018 · David Zelinka, Bernard Amadei · International Journal of System Dynamics Applications · 31

Revisiting the whole systems approach: designing supply chains in a turbulent world

2022 · Mohamed M. Naim, Jonathan Gosling · The International Journal of Logistics Management · 27

PDF

Dealing with earthquakes: the practice of seismic engineering ‘as if people mattered’

2018 · Edmund Booth · Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering · 27

PDF

Works count: 345

Citation count: 2,877