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Synopsis
Gigch (California State University) argues that the design of any human activity necessitates the intervention of multiple inquiring systems with engineer, scientist, lawyer, manager, ethicist, epistomologist, and artist contributing to the formulation of problems. Using ten cases — from doctor assisted suicide, to the creation of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security —Gigch illustrates the logic levels and the processes used to conceptualize dysfunctions and convert decisions into metadecisions. Topics include abstraction, representation, and metamodeling; the process of quantification; and the paradigm of information sciences. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR