Faculty Publications
Title
Complexity and the boundaries of human policy making
Document Type
Article
Keywords
Complexity, design, humans, interpretive rvictural modeling, it strut lure, language, problem-solving
Journal/Book/Conference Title
International Journal of General Systems
Volume
9
Issue
1
First Page
1
Last Page
11
Abstract
Properties characterizing complexity are woven together with research on human information processing and behaviorislic psychology to produce a theory of human limits. It is suggested lhat coupling the human and complexity, in problem solving satations, can be viewed as a design problem where an interface device is needed to link the human lo complexity, Inicrpreiive Structural Modeling is discussed as an example of such an interface device. In addition, it is proposed that a language specifically designed to help humans deal with complexity be developed. The necessary properties of such 3 language arc presented, and it is argued that Interpretive Structural Modeling already possesses some of these properties. © 1982, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. All rights reserved.
Original Publication Date
1-1-1982
DOI of published version
10.1080/03081078208960796
Recommended Citation
Waller, Robert J., "Complexity and the boundaries of human policy making" (1982). Faculty Publications. 4903.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/facpub/4903