Special issue on soft or and complex societal problems
Abstract:Preface by the guest editorIt is really troublesome to show how formal planning support tools can contribute to deal with large scale public problems that appear in education, health, safety, human development and infrastructure services.Rational analysts find great difficulties to construct models to help making decisions about public problems. To the point that either rational or social and political analysts are sceptical about the possibility and efficacy of formal models implementation.However, some OR re… Show more
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