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Action Research In Action - Thinking And Using Soft Systems Methodology Between Reality And Actuality

by Kenichi Uchiyama

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 Introducing actuality into SSM as a new dimension opened a new perspective in SSM both theoretically and practically. This is discussed in some detail in Chapter 3.The actuality aspect of SSM has been used for more than 20 years in various contexts, yielding many good results.
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Social Decision Systems Science - Theory And Applications In Southeast Asia

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 This book applies a decision systems science perspective to social systems, using the case of Southeast Asia to illustrate the concepts it sets forth.
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Innovative Collaboration In Healthcare

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 This book is the first to approach collaboration in healthcare from a translational systems science perspective.
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Legacy And Future Impact Of Gaming Simulation Pioneers - Essays In Memory Of Richard De La Barre Duke And Cathy Stein Greenblat

~~184,84€~~ 166,36€ 10% OFF

 This book is a tribute to two pioneers in the field of gaming simulation: Richard de la Barre Duke and Cathy Stein Greenblat.
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Sociological Foundations Of Computational Social Science

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 This book provides solid sociological foundations to computational social science (CSS). To resolve that shortcoming, this book fills the gap between CSS and sociology, shows that CSS can solve major research questions in sociology, and advances sociology by introducing to it theories and methodologies of CSS.
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Transferring Gaming And Simulation Experience To The Real World

~~184,84€~~ 166,36€ 10% OFF

 This book focuses on how to connect the gaming experience to the real world. Looking back at the history of the Simulation and Gaming field, it has offered the solution to social problems such as policy making, decision making for business strategies, education and training, environmental issues, urban planning, or disaster awareness.
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Innovative Collaboration In Healthcare

~~211,34€~~ 190,21€ 10% OFF

 This book is the first to approach collaboration in healthcare from a translational systems science perspective.
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History Of The Japanese Video Game Industry

by Yusuke Koyama

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 The book deals comprehensively with the history of the Japanese game industry from the beginning of the non-computer age to the present.The video game industry in Japan was established in the arcade game market when Space Invaders was released by Taito in 1978.
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Social Decision Systems Science - Theory And Applications In Southeast Asia

~~211,34€~~ 190,21€ 10% OFF

 This book applies a decision systems science perspective to social systems, using the case of Southeast Asia to illustrate the concepts it sets forth.
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Frontiers Of Japanese Management Control Systems - Theoretical Ideas And Empirical Evidence

~~202,77€~~ 182,49€ 10% OFF

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 This book provides a multilateral view of Japanese management control systems (MCS), presents the frameworks of MCS theory, and integrates those systems based on quantitative and qualitative research. By the end of the book, readers will have a firm grasp of how Japanese firms use MCS and what MCS means for Japanese companies.
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Systems Design Based On The Benefits Of Inconvenience

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 This book is about the "benefits of inconvenience (BoI)", providing a new approach to designing innovative systems and opening an alternative viewpoint to readers for looking at the world.
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System Of Human Activity Systems - A Novel Way To Visualize Invisible Risks

by Takafumi Nakamura

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 A system of system failures (SOSF) proposed and confirmed the effectiveness of this meta-methodology for information and communication technologies (ICT) systems and the SOSF is extended to human activity systems (SOHAS: system of human activity systems) as a whole.
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Realism For Social Sciences - A Translational Approach To Methodology

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 This book discusses the growing interest in realism in social sciences of the twenty-first century.
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Analysis Of Legal Argumentation Documents - A Computational Argumentation Approach

by Hayato Hirata e Katsumi Nitta

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 This book introduces methods to analyze legal documents such as negotiation records and legal precedents, using computational argumentation theory.First, a method to automatically evaluate argumentation skills from the records of argumentation exercises is proposed.
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Sociological Foundations Of Computational Social Science

~~145,09€~~ 130,58€ 10% OFF

 This book provides solid sociological foundations to computational social science (CSS). CSS is an emerging research field, and many books with those words in the title are on the market. However, CSS has not become mainstream in sociology, for which there are two reasons. First, CSS does not necessarily solve major research questions in sociology. Second, its sociological foundations are weak. These two reasons are interrelated—that is, CSS cannot solve major research questions because its sociological foundations are weak. Thus, even if it tries to solve those questions, its approaches seem to mainstream sociologists to miss the point. To resolve that shortcoming, this book fills the gap between CSS and sociology, shows that CSS can solve major research questions in sociology, and advances sociology by introducing to it theories and methodologies of CSS.
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Systemic Principles Of Applied Economic Philosophies Ii - Value, Decision, And Large-Scale Business Forces

by Jeffrey Yi-Lin Forrest

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 The objective of this book, the second volume of this monograph series, is to respond to the calls from front-line managers, entrepreneurs, and scholarly researchers to reconstruct the theories of economics and business so that the new theories will be more relevant to real life than the prevalent ones. Differing from what is presented in the first volume, this second volume emphasizes the development of systemic principles underlying a whole series of empirical discoveries and theoretical conclusions in more applied business studies. By employing the concepts, methodology, and logical reasoning of systems science, this volume addresses important issues about value creation and capture, managerial decision making in the modern business world, and the management of large-scale business forces.The book particularly targets graduate students and scholarly researchers who are looking for opportunities to develop new territory in the world of applied economic and business knowledge. In addition, it aims at front-line decision-making managers and entrepreneurs who want sounder theories and more reliable methods than the commonly available ones on which to base their critical decisions. By masterfully employing the concepts, methodology, and logical reasoning of systems science, readers can expect to become better able to discover the previously unfamiliar essence of business practices and insightful opportunities for profit.
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Systemic Principles Of Applied Economic Philosophies I - Producers, Consumers, And The Firm

by Jeffrey Yi-Lin Forrest

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 The objective of this book is to answer the calls from front-line managers, entrepreneurs, and scholarly researchers to reconstruct the theories of economics and business. Their request is for new theories to be more relevant to real life than the now-prevalent ones. To provide that answer, the book proposes to develop elementary postulates at the level of the four natural endowments of a business firm or an individual: self-awareness, imagination, conscience, and free will. Then, conclusions based on these postulates can be established through logical reasoning. On this realistic footing, the book employs the concepts, methodology, and logical reasoning of systems science to answer a full list of theoretically and practically important questions. Those queries involve such topics as rationality, the meanings of optima and choices of optimization methods, the relationship between micro- and macro-phenomena, consumption preferences, and utility representations. The target audience of the book includes graduate students and scholarly researchers, particularly those who look for opportunities to develop new territories in the world of economic and business knowledge. The book also aims at front-line decision-making managers and entrepreneurs who seek sounder theories than the commonly available ones on which to base their critical decisions. By competently employing the systemic intuition-yoyo model, graduate students, scholarly researchers, decision-making managers, and entrepreneurs can attain new conclusions. In addition, they will gain insightful understanding of market signals without unnecessarily expending other resources of limited availability.
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System Of Human Activity Systems - A Novel Way To Visualize Invisible Risks

by Takafumi Nakamura

~~171,59€~~ 154,43€ 10% OFF

 A system of system failures (SOSF) proposed and confirmed the effectiveness of this meta-methodology for information and communication technologies (ICT) systems and the SOSF is extended to human activity systems (SOHAS: system of human activity systems) as a whole.
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Realism For Social Sciences - A Translational Approach To Methodology

~~145,74€~~ 131,17€ 10% OFF

 This book discusses the growing interest in realism in social sciences of the twenty-first century.
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Translating And Incorporating American Management Thought Into Japan - Impacts On Academics And Practices Of Business Administration

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 The hypothesis presented here is that in the postwar period of rapid growth, the JSM was a hybrid set of management theories and techniques greatly influenced by American ideas about management.This book concentrates on the impact of American management theories and ideas on the JSM.
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Knowledge Technology And Systems - Toward Establishing Knowledge Systems Science

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 This book discusses technology and systems to create valuable ideas from data through the construction of knowledge. The primary concern is to make better decisions about economic and management issues in today’s information-flooded society. Human creative activity is in the realm of soft technology, with no physical entity to operate. Focusing on the ability of knowledge as judgment power, this definition results: "Knowledge technology is soft technology that underpins the human creative activities of converting data and information into knowledge, creating new ideas based on that knowledge and validating those ideas." That definition includes a wide range of soft technologies developed in informatics, management studies, and systems science.The knowledge system creates ideas from data and knowledge through knowledge technologies. Based on the proposition that knowledge emerges by the interaction between explicit and tacit knowledge, another definition is possible: "The knowledge system is a system that promotes interaction between codified and personalized knowledge and creates ideas for solving a specific problem." Codified knowledge includes data and information, while personalized knowledge is empirical knowledge or wisdom that is difficult to put into words.Building a knowledge system requires mathematical or intelligent knowledge technology and participatory knowledge technology to create or manage codified knowledge and personalized knowledge. For example, a company builds cross-sectional knowledge systems by gathering human resources from various departments, according to the purpose, as in new product development or sales promotion. Chapter 1 defines knowledge technology and the knowledge system and organizes the challenges in their development, while Chapters 2 through 9 introduce mathematical or intelligent knowledge technologies by researchers at the forefront of knowledge technology development.
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History Of The Japanese Video Game Industry

by Yusuke Koyama

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 This book is the first one to describe the entire history of the video game industry in Japan. The industry consists of multiple markets—for PCs, home consoles, arcades, cellular phones and smart phones—and it is very difficult to see the complete picture. The book deals comprehensively with the history of the Japanese game industry from the beginning of the non-computer age to the present.The video game industry in Japan was established in the arcade game market when Space Invaders was released by Taito in 1978. Game markets for both PCs and home consoles followed in the early 1980s. The platform that occupies a central market position started with the arcade and shifted, in order, to the home console, handheld consoles, and smart phones. In the video game industry in the twentieth century each platform had a clear identity, and the relationships among platforms were "interactions". In the twenty-first century, with the improvement of computer performance, the platform identity has disappeared, thus the relationship among platforms is highly competitive. Since the "crash of 1983" in the United States, the Japanese game industry has one of the largest market shares in the world and has developed without being influenced by other countries. It reached its peak in the late 1990s, and then its relative position declined due to the growth of foreign markets and the failure of emerging markets such as online PC games. Even today, Japan''s gaming industry holds a dominant position in the world, but it is not the superpower it once was.Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, game research has become active worldwide. Among game researchers, there is a large demand for research on games in Japan, but there is still little dissemination of research in English. The original version of this book published in Japan is highly regarded and received an award for excellence from the Society of Socio-Informatics in 2017.
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Frontiers Of Japanese Management Control Systems - Theoretical Ideas And Empirical Evidence

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 This book provides a multilateral view of Japanese management control systems (MCS), presents the frameworks of MCS theory, and integrates those systems based on quantitative and qualitative research. By the end of the book, readers will have a firm grasp of how Japanese firms use MCS and what MCS means for Japanese companies.
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Modern Japanâ€™S Place In World History - From Meiji To Reiwa

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 Readers will learn how new research by Japanese historians has led to the revision of conventional views on the turbulent history of Japan, once the enemy of the United States in the war in the Asia-Pacific and now the USâ€™s closest ally in the region. Historical research on the modern history of Japan has been constantly updated.
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