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| Title: | Putting General Systems Sciences To Practical Use : Methodological Issues, And the Case of Business Process Engineering |
| Authors: | Sato, Ryo |
| Keywords: | second order methodology
symbolic program
business process engineering |
| Issue Date: | Nov-2005 |
| Publisher: | JAIST Press |
| Abstract: | Making a business process is the target of information systems methodologies. A business process is intangible system that human beings make artifically to satisfy some goals. It is a human activity system [1], contains formal components such as datamodel and information systems, and is subject to achievement of its goal. Since it is artificail and contains human activities, the natural science cannot be directly applied to. The aim of business process engineering is to analyse and synthesize such business processes, but the current status of its development does not have engineering precision yet. Fundamental examination of the nature of business process and appropriate methodology was required. This paper is threefold. First, the nature of research of social systems as artificail systems will be clarified. Referring Simon[2] and Yoshida[3], huge difference between natural and social sciences will be reconsidered, and then a firm epistemological basis for research of intangible and artificial systems is set. The point is the true meaning of social laws. Secondly, a methodology for integration of researches for practical research product will be formulated based on Yoshikawa et.al [4] and Gibbons [5]. Thirdly, the development of business process engineering is shown as sample application of the second order methodology, inidicating the role of general systems research in the development is also indicated. Future research areas are also shown to be huge vacuum and are worth exploring. |
| Description: | The original publication is available at JAIST Press http://www.jaist.ac.jp/library/jaist-press/index.html
IFSR 2005 : Proceedings of the First World Congress of the International Federation for Systems Research : The New Roles of Systems Sciences For a Knowledge-based Society : Nov. 14-17, 2141, Kobe, Japan
Symposium 7, Session 3 : Foundations of the Systems Sciences Models and Applications |
| Language: | ENG |
| URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10119/3931 |
| ISBN: | 4-903092-02-X |
| Appears in Collections: | IFSR 2005
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