Optimization and Computational Logic
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Book Selection Edited by JM Wilson JAM Vannix: Group Model Building: Facilitating Team Learning Using System Dynamics A Kastelein, J Vissers, GG van Merode and L Delesie (eds): Managing Health Care under Resource Constraints: Proceedings of the 21st meeting of Operational Research Applied to Health GP Richardson (ed): Modelling for Management: Simulation in Support of Systems Thinking (Vols 1 and 2) T Hayakawa, M Aoshima and K Shimuzu (eds): Multivariate Statistical Analysis: In Honor of Professor Minoru Siotani on his 70th Birthday, Vol III K McAloon and C Tretkoff: Optimization and Computational Logic C Chapman and S Ward: Project Risk Management: Processes, Techniques and Insights T Gal and HJ Greenberg (eds): Advances in Sensitivity Analysis and Parametric Programming A Migdalas, PM Pardalos and S Storoy (eds): Parallel Computing in Optimization J Friend and A Hickling: Planning Under Pressure: The Strategic Choice Approach (2nd edn) RE Stein: Re-Engineering the Manufacturing System: Applying the Theory of Constraints K Van Der Heijden: Scenarios: The Art of Strategic Conversation J Knezevic: Systems Maintainability Analysis, Engineering and Management
Group Model Building: Facilitating Team Learning Using System Dynamics JAM Vannix John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, 1996. xiii 297 pp. £24.95. ISBN 0 471 95355 5 This text is a useful addition to any collection of books on systems approaches, and will particularly appeal to those who favour a multidisciplinary approach to systems. Taking the view of systems dynamics as but one approach within the broader area of systems and soft OR, the text is refreshing compared to the efforts of others who try to argue for systems dynamics as a distinct discipline in its own right. This realistic placing of systems dynamics with a broader context is complemented by material giving practical advice on using systems dynamics and group decision and results in a credible and useful text. The logical structure to the book makes for easy reading: preliminary sections introduce and discuss systems and systems dynamics; a middle section discusses the issues of group decision making; and the main body of the book brings the two together. A range of case studies is used throughout the text, with those based around the Dutch healthcare systems and the housing association particularly useful and interesting. The material on systems is fairly standard and could, I felt, have gone into some areas in slightly more depth (for example in relation to the span and content of systems
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where there is little mention of systemic metaphors). The author does, however, give generous and useful acknowledgement to a range of other systems approaches. The overview of Systems Dynamics which follows is extremely good given the limited space and the fact that this is not the main purpose of the text. The chapters on group model building contai
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