At present, it is projected that about 4 zettabytes (or 10** 21 bytes) of digital data are being
generated per year by everything from underground physics experiments to retail …

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 …

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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 …

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 …

The graph model for conflict resolution and the associated decision support system GMCR II
are presented as a comprehensive service tool that can provide strategic advice to leaders …

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 …