• DocumentCode
    3024986
  • Title

    Systems analysis as interactive construction: how to distinguish between reliable results and nonsense?

  • Author

    Grunwald, A.

  • Author_Institution
    Res. Centre, Inst. for Technol. Assess. & Syst. Anal., Karlsruhe, Germany
  • fYear
    2000
  • fDate
    2000
  • Firstpage
    151
  • Lastpage
    156
  • Abstract
    The quality assurance of integrative and interdisciplinary research raises specific problems. It is shown that results of systems analysis-being considered as a tool for integrative research in technology assessment-depend on a manifold of preempirical decisions which are made due to ethically, politically or socially relevant criteria. This fact leads to the necessity for interactivity in designing integrative projects
  • Keywords
    professional aspects; quality control; social aspects of automation; systems analysis; ethics; interdisciplinary research; politics; quality assurance; social aspects; systems analysis; technology assessment; Air pollution; Environmental factors; Marine pollution; Oceans; Ontologies; Problem-solving; Protection; Quality assessment; Quality assurance; Water pollution;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Technology and Society, 2000. University as a Bridge from Technology to Society. IEEE International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Rome
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-5803-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISTAS.2000.915596
  • Filename
    915596