An application of Soft System Methodology

Mehregan, Mohammad Reza; Hosseinzadeh, Mahnaz; Kazemi, Aliyeh

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2012.04.051

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“…It is a framework for seeing interrelationships rather than things, for seeing patterns of change rather than static "snapshots. " Some research that has been done related to this research are: an overview of the soft system methodology (Burge, 2015), the application of SSM in universities (Mehregan, Hosseinzadeh, & Kazemi, 2012), SSM in Math evolution module (Warwick, 2008), the application of SSM in the sugar industry (Proches & Bodhanya, 2015), SSM in strategic planning (Díaz-Parra et al, 2014), SSM as a Learning and Management Tool (Khisty, 1995), and learning to support learning together with SSM (Sanchez & Mejía, 2008).…”

Section: The Soft System Methodology (Ssm)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Soft System Methodology Approach: Tourism Conceptual Model as the Identity of Bandung, Indonesia

Aldianto

Novani

Anggadwita

et al. 2020

Business: Theory and Practice

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The Indonesian tourism sector has become one of government’s focus points because of its significant contribution to economic development on all levels, district/city, province, or national. As an Indonesian city, Bandung has a lot of tourism potential with its local cultural diversity. The purpose of this research is to develop a conceptual model design of tourism, especially in Bandung city as one of the cultural identity cities in West Java. A system thinking approach with qualitative analysis, known as the Soft System Methodology (SSM), is used in this research. Qualitative data collection techniques were carried out by a purposive sampling technique which was obtained from the results of in-depth interviews with stakeholders that included academics, representatives of the government, communities, and businesspeople in the tourism sector. The result of this research is a conceptual model design for Bandung city tourism as the identity of a cultural city, called as Sunda Culture Center (Sunda Centrum).

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Soft System Methodology Approach: Tourism Conceptual Model as the Identity of Bandung, Indonesia

Aldianto

Novani

Anggadwita

et al. 2020

Business: Theory and Practice

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“…Environmental constraints: external and internal constraints which can affect the transformation process in the system. CATWOE analysis is used to develop root definitions which are one or more sentences that describe the system, its goal and its actors (Mehregan et al, 2012). These root definitions help build a conceptual model that is later translated to the causal loop diagram (Setianto et al, 2014).…”

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Application of System Thinking Approach in Identifying the Challenges of Beef Value Chain

Alizadeh

Mohammadi

Shahnoushi

et al. 2020

AOL

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In this study, the system thinking approach was used to explain the challenges of the beef value chain in Mashhad, Iran. Due to the complexity of the system and its dynamic nature, rich picture and CATWOE analysis were used to structure the problem. After structuring the problem, the relationships between the chain actors were drawn in the causal loop diagram. Then, the system archetypes were identified. Results showed that the dynamics of this value chain could be explained by limit to growth, fixes that fail and shifting the burden archetypes. The results indicated that the beef import policy has not been effective to regulate the domestic market. Also, it can be concluded that beef cattle production in Mashhad is largely dependent on sustainable supply of livestock feed. So, enhancing cattle production requires policy making to increase availability of livestock feed. Therefore, it is recommended to plan for increasing its production through changing irrigation system and using early maturing and drought-tolerant varieties of corn.

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“…The timetable applies to a wide range of problems, including training problems, sports competitions, transportation problems, staff work schedules, meeting schedules, and production process timetabling. The timetable of educational problems is used in universities for timetabling courses, exams [4], deletions and additions [5] and in schools for timetabling courses, exams [6] and educators for teaching children with disabilities at home [7]. In the area of sports problems, the researchers used a timeline for scheduling basketball, football, table tennis, and baseball matches.…”

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An integer mathematical model for the problem of timetabling university exams

Shadkam¹

2021

BEN

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This research is an attempt to create optimized planning in educational units. The problem of university courses timetabling is one of the problems that is very important for educational units; establishing optimal distances to comply with students' study status as well as balancing other constraints of the timetabling problem is one of the challenges in a timetabling problem. Therefore, sometimes an educational unit may not be able to strike a good balance between all the constraints it faces and fail to achieve a proper timing table. In this paper, in order to achieve optimal exam timetabling with an integer scheduling approach, a model for exam timetabling is presented. The purpose of the proposed mathematical model is to maximize the appropriate time intervals that should be established between students' exams. In this mathematical model, according to the number of allowed exam days and the number of possible exam sessions per day, a number of positions have been considered and it is tried to assign these positions to the courses according to the courses related to the students of each entrance. The most important advantage of the proposed model is its simplicity while sufficient accuracy. Therefore, complex methods are not needed to solve this model.

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An application of Soft System Methodology

Cited by 40 publications

References 29 publications

Soft System Methodology Approach: Tourism Conceptual Model as the Identity of Bandung, Indonesia

Soft System Methodology Approach: Tourism Conceptual Model as the Identity of Bandung, Indonesia

Application of System Thinking Approach in Identifying the Challenges of Beef Value Chain

An integer mathematical model for the problem of timetabling university exams

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