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using a hypothetical but realistic aircraft selection problem. …
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Event tree analysis and Monte Carlo-based discrete event simulation have been used in risk assessment studies for many years. This report details how features of these two methods can be combined with concepts from object-oriented analysis to develop a new risk assessment methodology with some...
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Before this study took place, the social psychology perspective of Attributiontheory was yet to be fully utilised in South African research within themaintenance error landscape.Attributional approaches see the person on the street operating like a scientist,obtaining information from his or her...
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subjecting the revenue-complexity, revenue-elasticity and flypaper hypotheses to pooled time-series, cross-sectional analysis of … provided for the revenue-complexity hypothesis, strong evidence exists for the flypaper effect, and virtually no empirical …
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This conceptual paper investigates how the metaphorical use of concepts from complexity theory may impact the way we …, borrowed from complexity theory are presented. Fractal thinking allows self-similarity through the constants of initial …
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There is increasing agreement that understanding complexity is important for project management because of difficulties … associated with decision-making and goal attainment which appear to stem from complexity. However the current operational … complexity can be measured in a robust manner that takes account of structural, dynamic and interaction elements. Thematic …
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recent years has introduced new challenges. One challenge concerns dealing with the ever-growing complexity of business … process models. Mechanisms for dealing with this complexity can be classified into two categories: i) those that are solely …
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accompanied by an increase in language complexity. In practice many organizations choose to only use a subset of the available … restriction affects the expressiveness and complexity of the resulting modeling vocabulary. We compare our empirical findings with …
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complex projects. At the same time, complexity in and of projects has emerged as a theme for discussion and debate in response … projects and project complexity in practice. This paper reports on research, undertaken with support from the Project … landscape of “complexity theory” and illuminating those developments within it that have high relevance to project management …
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It has been suggested that the nature of the task within a multi-attribute multi-alternative choice experiment may be sufficiently complex to make it difficult for individuals to develop response strategies to strategically bias their answers. This experiment tested that hypothesis by setting...
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