Overview
- Develops and describes a general methodology that can be applied to any complex human activity
- Presents several typical examples throughout the text to illustrate the implementation of common approaches
- Reveals the structural components of complex activities, and functionally describes their logical, cause-and-effect, and process structures
- Illustrates that considerable scrutiny is given to organization and management, uncertainties, and the life cycles of activity, as well as the actors, subject matter, resources, knowledge, and methods involved in this activity
Part of the book series: Studies in Systems, Decision and Control (SSDC, volume 300)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book develops and describes a general methodology that can be applied to any complex human activity (activity with a non-trivial, multi-level internal structure).
The structural components of complex activities are considered, and their logical, cause-and-effect, and process structures are functionally described. Considerable attention is paid to organization and management, uncertainties, and the lifecycles of activities, as well as the actors, subject matter, resources, knowledge, and methods involved.
Several typical examples are used throughout the text to illustrate the implementation of common approaches involving the functioning of work groups, organizational units, projects, and organizations in general: a retail bank, an aircraft manufacturer, a fire department, and a nuclear power plant. In addition, the book employs a system of connected technical models, in order to ensure that the results are of practical applicability for both experts on the ground and scholars engaged in research on the general principles of how activities (practical, scientific, etc.) are organized or on the management of socio-technical systems.Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Methodology of Complex Activity
Book Subtitle: Foundations of Understanding and Modelling
Authors: Mikhail V. Belov, Dmitry A. Novikov
Series Title: Studies in Systems, Decision and Control
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48610-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-48609-9Published: 01 July 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-48612-9Published: 01 July 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-48610-5Published: 30 June 2020
Series ISSN: 2198-4182
Series E-ISSN: 2198-4190
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 223
Number of Illustrations: 61 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: Industrial and Production Engineering, Data Engineering