Special issue: Assessment methods in social systems science

International Journal of Society Systems Science 3(1/2) 2011

• Technology leverage and a sustainable society: a call for technology forecasting that anticipates innovation
• Optimal emission-dependent production policy with stochastic demand
• Inter-institutional relationships and emergency management
• Developing country efficiency assessment by means of a comprehensive model based on data envelopment analysis
• Maturity assessment models: a design science research approach
• Service quality improvement strategies and tools for university libraries
• Mutual funds return and risk decomposition evaluation based on quadratic-constrained DEA models
• Interpreting interactions of ordinal or continuous variables in moderated regression using the zero slope comparison: tutorial, new extensions, and cancer symptom applications
• An urban model using complex constrained cellular automata: long-term urban form prediction for Beijing
• Daily price and volatility behaviour in soybean oil market
• Performance and benchmarks of participating nations in Beijing Olympics using the DEA approach