COIM: An Object-Process Based Method for Analyzing Architectures of Complex, Interconnected, Large-Scale Socio-Technical Systems
There is growing evidence for the relevance of human behavioral factors in successful development of new products, processes, and services. The evidence is even clearer when the forces affecting the development and evolution of long-lived, large, and open complex socio-technical systems are examined...
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| author | Osorio, Carlos A. Dori, Dov Sussman, Joseph M. |
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| description | There is growing evidence for the relevance of human behavioral factors in successful development of new products, processes, and services. The evidence is even clearer when the forces affecting the development and evolution of long-lived, large, and open complex socio-technical systems are examined. Methods that study the architecture of these systems can help scholars and practitioners to better understand, manage, and develop socio-technical systems. We propose an approach and a method to address these needs that is grounded in the theory of systems architecture and builds on the strengths of Object Process Methodology (OPM) and the process for representing Complex Large-scale Interconnected Open Socio-technical (CLIOS) systems. We do so by integrating these methods into the CLIOS-OPM Integrated Method (COIM). COIM is conducive to studying a system's architecture and its evolution, as it is enhanced by a set of qualitative methods for answering questions about the reasons (why) and process (how) of change in human-made systems over time. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/782812022-10-01T04:29:16Z COIM: An Object-Process Based Method for Analyzing Architectures of Complex, Interconnected, Large-Scale Socio-Technical Systems Osorio, Carlos A. Dori, Dov Sussman, Joseph M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division Sussman, Joseph M. Dori, Dov There is growing evidence for the relevance of human behavioral factors in successful development of new products, processes, and services. The evidence is even clearer when the forces affecting the development and evolution of long-lived, large, and open complex socio-technical systems are examined. Methods that study the architecture of these systems can help scholars and practitioners to better understand, manage, and develop socio-technical systems. We propose an approach and a method to address these needs that is grounded in the theory of systems architecture and builds on the strengths of Object Process Methodology (OPM) and the process for representing Complex Large-scale Interconnected Open Socio-technical (CLIOS) systems. We do so by integrating these methods into the CLIOS-OPM Integrated Method (COIM). COIM is conducive to studying a system's architecture and its evolution, as it is enhanced by a set of qualitative methods for answering questions about the reasons (why) and process (how) of change in human-made systems over time. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Communications Futures Program National Science Foundation (U.S.) (Grant #EIA-0306723) 2013-04-04T15:46:46Z 2013-04-04T15:46:46Z 2011-04 2010-11 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1098-1241 1520-6858 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/78281 Osorio, Carlos A., Dov Dori, and Joseph Sussman. “COIM: An Object-process Based Method for Analyzing Architectures of Complex, Interconnected, Large-scale Socio-technical Systems.” Systems Engineering 14.4 (2011): 364–382. CrossRef. Web. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2393-3124 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6941-2124 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/sys.20185 Systems Engineering Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ application/pdf John Wiley & Sons, Inc. MIT web domain |
| spellingShingle | Osorio, Carlos A. Dori, Dov Sussman, Joseph M. COIM: An Object-Process Based Method for Analyzing Architectures of Complex, Interconnected, Large-Scale Socio-Technical Systems |
| title | COIM: An Object-Process Based Method for Analyzing Architectures of Complex, Interconnected, Large-Scale Socio-Technical Systems |
| title_full | COIM: An Object-Process Based Method for Analyzing Architectures of Complex, Interconnected, Large-Scale Socio-Technical Systems |
| title_fullStr | COIM: An Object-Process Based Method for Analyzing Architectures of Complex, Interconnected, Large-Scale Socio-Technical Systems |
| title_full_unstemmed | COIM: An Object-Process Based Method for Analyzing Architectures of Complex, Interconnected, Large-Scale Socio-Technical Systems |
| title_short | COIM: An Object-Process Based Method for Analyzing Architectures of Complex, Interconnected, Large-Scale Socio-Technical Systems |
| title_sort | coim an object process based method for analyzing architectures of complex interconnected large scale socio technical systems |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/78281 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2393-3124 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6941-2124 |
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