A case is made for further developing a branch of systems engineering that focuses on
problems and issues which arise in the service sector. We promulgate this special focus not …

The outputs or products of an economy can be divided into services products and goods
products (due to manufacturing, construction, agriculture and mining). To date, the services …

Manufacturing and services constitute two of the five sectors of every country's economy;
depending on the maturity of the economy, they are—in terms of employment—typically the …

Healthcare is indeed a complex service system, one requiring the technobiology approach
of systems engineering to underpin its development as an integrated and adaptive system …

Several important application areas that will dominate systems, man, and cybernetic (SMC)
efforts for at least the next decade, together with the methods that will require further …

In an earlier paper (Tien 2012), the author augurs that, in contrast to the first and second
industrial revolutions which respectively focused on the development and the mass …

The popularity of distance education has grown rapidly over the last decade in Taiwan's
higher education, yet many fundamental teaching–learning issues are still in debate. While …

The focus of this paper is on decision making; more specifically, on what decision making
requirements are needed in the future. We augur for a decision informatics paradigm; it is a …

Our focus herein is on developing an effective taxonomy for the simultaneous and real-time
management of supply and demand chains. More specifically, the taxonomy is developed in …

This paper presents an interactive-, menu-driven prototype software platform, namely
automatic control educational software (ACES), for self-instruction and self-evaluation in …