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Engineering Systems Integration
The first book to address the underlying premises of systems integration and how to exposit them into a practical and productive manner, this book prepares systems managers and systems engineers to consider their decisions in light of systems integration metrics. The book addresses two questions: Is there a way to express the interplay of human actions and the result of system interactions of a product with its environment, and are there methods that combine to improve the integration of systems? The systems integration theory and integration frameworks proposed in the book tie General Systems Theory with practice.
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Conceptual Modeling for Understanding and Communicating Complexity During Human Systems Integration in Manned–Unmanned Systems: A Case Study
Informal soft system methodologies hold a significant role in developing complex systems. They bridge system knowledge and sensemaking among heterogeneous stakeholders. This article investigates the application of conceptual models to support such communication and understanding among transdisciplinary stakeholders, ensuring the translation of customer requirements and needs into suitable engineered systems. This article presents a case study incorporating observations, interviews, and a review of conceptual models utilized by an aerospace and defense case company for the development of future Manned–Unmanned Systems. It explores how practitioners employ conceptual modeling to support the Human Systems Integration (HSI) aspects of technological, organizational, and human elements of Manned–Unmanned Teaming (MUM-T) systems. The results indicate that practitioners utilize a mix of informal and formal types of conceptual models when developing Human Systems Integration aspects of the system. Formal models, such as sequence diagrams, requirement overviews, and functional flow models, are applied when addressing technology-focused aspects. Organization-centered modeling leverages representations like stakeholder maps and swimlane diagrams, while people-centered aspects rely more on informal techniques such as storytelling and user personas. The findings suggest a potential underestimation by practitioners of the value of quantification in conceptual modeling for Manned–Unmanned Systems development. This study highlights the important role that conceptual modeling methods play, particularly focusing on the informal aspects. These methods are instrumental in enhancing effective communication and understanding among transdisciplinary stakeholders. Furthermore, they facilitate mutual understanding, which is essential for fostering collaboration and shared vision in the development of complex systems. This facilitates deeper insights and reasoning into HSI for MUM-T applications.
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Blockchain technology as an enabler for cross‐sectoral systems integration for developing smart sustainable cities
Smart cities driven by modern technologies are the need of the day to alleviate the urbanisation challenges and improve the overall experience of the citizens. As the role of data‐sharing to facilitate systems integration across city sectors for developing smart cities has grown ever so profoundly, there is a need for decentralisation, transparency, and openness in terms of integration of city sectors to have efficient data diffusion among them. This is extremely important as the requirements of smart sustainable cities are open data sharing to allow service providers to better serve the citizens. Blockchain technology offers these characteristics with the extremely important added advantage of maintaining data security via an immutable record. However, the notion of the use of Blockchain for smart sustainable cities is still in the early years and requires extensive efforts to research and test it. In this research, a state‐of‐the‐art review is conducted to explore the usefulness of Blockchain technology in smart sustainable city development with a specific focus on cross‐sectoral systems integration, highlighting the gaps in the existing body of knowledge. This leads to the proposal of a novel framework for the use of Blockchain for smart sustainable cities, linking together service providers and citizens. As the role of data‐sharing to facilitate systems integration across city sectors for developing smart cities has grown ever so profoundly, there is a need for decentralisation, transparency, and openness in terms of integration of city sectors to have efficient data diffusion among them. Blockchain technology offers the advantage of maintaining data security via an immutable record. This state‐of‐the‐art research explores the usefulness of Blockchain technology in smart sustainable city development with a specific focus on cross‐sectoral systems integration, highlighting the gaps in the existing body of knowledge.
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The impact of information management strategies on decision-making effectiveness in Jordanian private hospitals
This study aimed to investigate the impact of information management strategies on decision-making effectiveness in Jordanian private hospitals. It examines how data accuracy, accessibility, technology adoption, and information system integration influence decision-making effectiveness while considering the critical mediation role of organizational culture. A quantitative approach was employed; structured questionnaires were used to collect data from healthcare professionals in selected Jordanian private hospitals, which included hospital administrators, IT staff, and clinical managers. The total sample consisted of 357 out of 400 sent questionnaires. The study utilized partial least squares (PLS) and structural equation modeling (SEM) to assess the relationships between the variables. Based on β and R2 values, the results indicated that information management strategies significantly affect decision-making effectiveness, in addition to a vital role of organizational culture. The results indicate that data accuracy, accessibility, technology adoption, and information system integration influence decision-making effectiveness. Additionally, it stresses that organizational culture significantly influences the relationship between information management strategies and decision-making effectiveness in private hospitals in Jordan.
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Systemic Cognition: A Few Epistemological Clarifications
Systemic cognition combines the humanities and social sciences with systems science to support a unified field, Human Systems Integration (HSI). It draws on complementary, sometimes conflicting, fields of research, including phenomenology, positivism, logic, teleological approaches, humanism, computer science, and engineering. It is time to gain a deeper understanding of our approach to HSI in complex socio-technical systems. Over the past fifty years, we have transformed our lives in unprecedented ways through technology, both in terms of useful and usable hardware and software resources. We have developed means of transport that enable geographical connectivity anywhere and at any time, which is now a standard feature. We have developed information systems that will allow people to communicate with each other in seconds, anywhere on the planet, and at any time. Systemic cognition aims to provide ontological support for discussing this sociotechnical evolution and to develop HSI not only based on a Human-Centered Design (HCD) approach, but also by focusing on society, which is becoming increasingly immersed in a world equipped with artificial resources (particularly with the growing incorporation of artificial intelligence), which separates us from nature. This article proposes an epistemological approach that extends contemporary theories of systemic and socio-cognitive modeling by integrating constructivism and research on HCD-based HSI developed over the last three decades. Aeronautical examples are used to support the concepts being developed.
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The importance of Industry 4.0 technologies when selecting an ERP system – An empirical study
The paper deals with the issue of the impact of the “Industry 4.0” concept on the process of selection of the enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. Firstly, review of the literature regarding the ERP system selection is presented, with the emphasis on the role of the new technologies in such selection. Secondly, the content of the term “Industry 4.0” is discussed, and put into context with the nature of ERP systems. The main part of the article then presents the results of the survey conducted among the medium and large industrial companies in the Czech Republic. Employees in the position of decision makers in the matter of selecting an ERP system were asked to participate. The survey used the form of questionnaire with close-ended questions with five-point scales, and investigated the attitude of the Czech manufacturing companies to the selected technologies of “Industry 4.0” and the importance of particular criteria for the selection of new ERP system. Investigated criteria were divided into 9 groups, where 5 of them were derived from previous research on the topic of ERP systems selections, and dealt with system price, portability, modularity, user experience and security. The remaining 4 groups were aimed at the selected technologies of “Industry 4.0” – big data, system integration, cloud computing and automatic identification and data capture. Kruskal-Wallis test and Neményi method of post-hoc analysis were used to compare the importance of particular criteria expressed by the respondents. The results show that although the companies are aware of the future challenges raised by the “Fourth Industrial Revolution,” in the selection of ERP systems they still emphasise mostly the previously used criteria such as price or modularity. As for the criteria connected to “Industry 4.0,” the ability of a system to deal with big data was assessed as the most important one.
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