Wicked Problems – Social Messes Decision Support Modelling with Morphological Analysis /

• Main Author: Ritchey, Tom (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.
• Series: Risk, Governance and Society ; 17
• Subjects: Business.; Management.; Industrial management.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Economic policy.; Social sciences.; Business and Management.; Innovation/Technology Management.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.; R & D/Technology Policy.

This is the first dedicated book to be published on computer-aided General Morphological Analysis (GMA) as a non-quantified modelling method. It presents the history and theory of GMA and describes how it is used to develop interactive, non-quantified inference models. Eleven case studies are presen...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• General Morphological Analysis (GMA)
• Wicked Problems and Genuine Uncertainty
• Modelling Complex Policy Issues with Morphological Analysis
• Strengths, Limitations and Advanced Topics
• On the Formal Properties of Morphological Models
• Facilitating GMA Workshops
• GMA Case Studies
• About Fritz Zwicky
• Glossary
• References and Further Reading.