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Record W1901622571 · doi:10.24908/pceea.v0i0.3685

HOLISTIC UNDERSTANDING FOR DESIGN -- THEORY OF TECHNICAL SYSTEMS

2011· article· en· W1901622571 on OpenAlexaffvenue
W. Ernst Eder

Bibliographic record

VenueProceedings of the Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA) · 2011
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicManufacturing Process and Optimization
Canadian institutionsRoyal Military College of Canada
Fundersnot available
KeywordsProcess (computing)Computer scienceManagement scienceProcess managementSystems theoryRisk analysis (engineering)Systems engineeringKnowledge managementEngineeringBusinessArtificial intelligence

Abstract

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Improvements at local to global levels needs holistic understanding of the processes and actors (operators). The theory of technical systems provides a model for a holistic understanding, and a conceptual basis for qualitative thinking. The theory describes a transfo-rmation system, in an environment. Any artificial change (transformation) can be modeled in this way. The environment includes local influences and effects acting on the system and its process, and a general environment (regional, national and global) that covers physical, chemical, societal, economic, cultural, political, ideological, geographic and all other influences, with a link to other areas of study. Technical systems (as main operator) experience a typical life cycle. This leads to consideration of supply networks, globalization, financing, impacts on the environment, and other concepts. The process, and all operators, exhibit typical classes of properties. Each process and operator consists of elements and relationships that form structures of several useful kinds. Anticipating a future involves establishing the requirements, including those that arise from the producing organization. The available technological and scientific information influences the development of individual sorts of transformation system, and enables and limits the changes in culture that can be implemented. A rational methodology for designing newer transformation systems can be proposed. This systematic approach to designing allows use of other design methods, including intuitive working.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: Methods
Teacher disagreement score0.009
Threshold uncertainty score0.043

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.002
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0020.015
Scholarly communication0.0070.008
Open science0.0020.003
Research integrity0.0030.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0090.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.048
GPT teacher head0.209
Teacher spread0.161 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreMethods

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2011
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