A System of Systems Methodology: Difference between revisions

* The system is represented in a quantitative model which simulates its performance under different operational conditions something only possible if the system is simple and the context mechanical.

* Classical OR Systems analysis and systems engineering are most appropriate for solving problems.

| Cybernetic approaches, such as advocated by Beer and in the socio-technical systems literature.

Suitable for tackling problems associated with systemic-unitary contexts.

| The soft systems thinking proposed by Ackoff and by Checkland could minister to problems set in systemic-pluralist problem-contexts. For example, Ackof's 'interactive planning' exhibited, through the participative principle, a method to cope with pluralism and, through the proposed design for a 'responsive decision system', an attempt to come to terms with systemicity

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