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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"system dynamics modelling"”.
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System dynamics modelling for human resource planning.
… in this thesis concerns the application of system dynamics to the field of Human Resource Planning (HRP). Human resource planning has been defined as the process whereby a company develops and deploys the right staff at the right places, at the right times to fulfil both organization and …
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A study of inventory classification in healthcare logistics using system dynamics modelling.
… effective management of hospitals logistics systems. The aim of this research work is to provide a structured mechanism for modelling and analysing health care logistics to be able to understand its dynamic behaviour and effectively manage its logistical activities on the basis of the model. …
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Enhancing the Understanding of Corruption through System Dynamics Modelling: A Case Study Analysis of Pakistan
… rationale of this research is to build initial system dynamics models of corruption so that these models can extend our understanding of corruption and act as an input to future policy-making on corruption. System dynamics is an approach to modelling and computer simulation of complex systems in …
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Methods for enhancing system dynamics modelling : state-space models, data-driven structural validation & discrete-event simulation
System dynamics (SD) simulation models are differential equation models that often contain a complex network of relationships between variables. These models are widely used, but have a number of limitations. SD models cannot represent individual entities, or model the stochastic behaviour of these …
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System Dynamics modelling of Organizational Culture Transformation: A study of the organizational and technical factors that affect the implementation of Toyota production system in organizations
… favourable results. This research aims to adopt systems thinking approach to culture change. It utilizes system dynamics modelling to unravel the dynamics of change. Initially, a hybrid change methodology is developed, incorporating the best aspects of models from literature and insights gained …
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Using applied palaeoecology and participatory system dynamics modelling to investigate changes in ecosystem services in response to climate and social-ecological drivers within the middle berg river catchment, South Africa
… agricultural landscapes are social-ecological systems that co-produce ecosystem services, which change over time in response to environmental, biotic and social drivers. Failure to consider this variability, and the feedbacks that cause system instability, can have consequences for sustainable …
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Systemic analysis and modelling of diagnostic errors in medicine
… discussed at length; however it still lacks a systemic research approach. This thesis takes the diagnostic process as a system and develops a systemic model of diagnostic errors by implementing system dynamics modelling combined with regression analysis. It aims to propose a better way of …
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Downstream automotive supply chain simulation: A system dynamics approach to improve performance
… push/pull inventory models are developed using system dynamics modelling methodology by allowing comparisons between the two inventory models. Although, there are number of literatures that have discussed these supply chain inventory models using system dynamics by evaluating their performance, …
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Error propagation in concurrent product development
System dynamics modelling is used to explore varying levels of concurrency in a typical design-build-produce project introducing a new product. Faster product life-cycles and demanding schedules have introduced the importance of beginning downstream work (build/manufacturing) while upstream work …
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Availability, Integrity, and Confidentiality for Content Centric Network internet architectures
… a promising example of CCN. It also presents a system dynamics modelling approach to bridge the gap between the technical solutions and business strategy by quantifying some of the qualitative variables salient to technology architects, policymakers, lawmakers, regulators, and internet service …
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Dynamic modelling of Japan's transition to offshore energies
… activities will be examined. Finally, using system dynamics modelling, an abstracted model of Japan's energy industry will be used to study the feasibilities and the potential impacts of the proposed offshore solutions. Specifically, the model examines the impacts on Japan's energy …
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Scaling Success : learning from education intervention programs to close the racial education achievement gap
… three, in part using causal loop diagrams from system dynamics modelling, makes the case for appreciating education as a complex system - one with interlocking political, economic, pedagogic, and sociocultural forces - and thus urges caution in drawing conclusions from chapter two; and chapter …
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A Systems Approach to Modelling the Effects of Climate Change on Agroforestry: A Case Study in Western Tanzania
… resiliency to the effects of climate change. System dynamics modelling is a cost-effective tool to simulate the long-term behaviour of agroforestry systems under future climate conditions. Water, Nutrient, and Light Capture in Agroforestry Systems (WaNuLCAS) is a system dynamics model …
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A dynamic model for evaluating the effects of changes in eating and physical activity on childhood obesity
… to demonstrate the contribution offered by system dynamics modelling with the modelbeing used as an experimentation tool to investigate the combined impact of eating andphysical activity behaviour on average weight, body mass index and the prevalence of obesitytrends of the English child …
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Resilience in disasters: a case study of an informal settlement in the Western Cape of South Africa
… disaster risk is viewed as a complex adaptive system. This view challenges simple cause and effect assumptions and recognises that components in a system are connected and interact in ways that cannot be predicted. Fieldwork was conducted in an informal settlement in the Western Cape. The main …
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A Systemic Approach for Risk and Resilience Assessment of Food Supply Chains
The food supply chain system is a network of activities and processes involved in producing, distributing, and delivering food products from their sources to consumers. The internal operations and the external environment in which the system functions create a dynamic that can lead to disturbances …
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INDOOR OVERHEATING RISK: A FRAMEWORK FOR TEMPORAL BUILDING ADAPTATION DECISION-MAKING
… building. There is a need for an integrated and systematic means of building adaptation decision-support, which provides analytical leverage to these listed decision makers. A means that: 1) assimilates a range of indoor thermal comfort's causal and solution space processes; 2) reveals and …