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.

A new approach to road safety that relies on design and engineering principles—the "Safe System" approach—could lead to dramatic reductions in vehicle-related deaths and injuries if implemented in the ...

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 well-functioning financial management information system (FMIS) provides timely, reliable, and comprehensive reports that support implementation of the government’s fiscal policies and fiscal rules, ...

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 ...