The system approach principle places individual system elements in their environments and observes the relationships between them. Instead of studying a specific phenomenon first – an automobile ...

Design of complex systems—such as a launch vehicle—often involves myriad integrated aspects and a variety of subsystems. Adopting a system-engineering approach helps streamline the process ...

This report introduces the human-centered design approach, highlights some of the analysis findings and design solutions, and offers a set of design recommendations for future incubation technologies.

They reviewed three systems science approaches—system dynamics, network analysis, and agent-based modeling—and their value in understanding HAP and WASH interventions in communities around the world.

Ironically, little systems thinking has been conducted to design bidirectional value-added approaches to partnering health care systems with engineering academic programs, although several ...

This paper analyses the fundamental philosophical assumptions of five "contrasting" information systems development (ISD) approaches: the interactionist approach, the speech act-based approach, the ...

The most effective way to prevent the death of an estimated 1.25 million people -- and millions more seriously injured -- on the world’s roads each year, is to implement a comprehensive and ...

A systems approach to healthcare delivery — one that understands how elements of care operate individually and in connection with each other — can improve the value of healthcare.

In order to meet the challenging thermal analysis needs of Space Station Freedom and other proposed Space Exploration Initiative missions, a new generation of thermal analysis tools, utilizing the ...