Program for stream Soft OR and Problem Structuring Methods

TC-21: Methodological and practical contributions of Soft OR/PSMs to Policy Making - Session A
Stream: Soft OR and Problem Structuring Methods
Room: Virtual Room 21
Chair(s): Ine Steenmans, Irene Pluchinotta

• Cognitive Maps in Conflict Transformation and Management
  Berkay Tosunlu, Alexis Tsoukias
• Combining Cognitive Mapping and Agent-based Modelling for detecting barriers to environmental policy implementation: the case of Nature-based Solution.
  Raffaele Giordano
• Eliciting policy causal mechanisms from a systems perspective: A case study of housing policy design in UK
  Koko Zhou
• The importance of eliciting and comparing stakeholders’ system boundary perceptions for problem structuring and policy-making
  Irene Pluchinotta, Giuseppe Salvia, Nici Zimmermann

TD-21: General papers
Stream: Soft OR and Problem Structuring Methods
Room: Virtual Room 21
Chair(s): Chris Smith

• Improving problem formulation in ill-defined situations with a decision support system
  Christian Hannes, Rüdiger von Nitzsch
• PROBLEM STRUCTURING PROPOSAL IN A MEDICAL CLINIC OF A MEDIUM-SIZED HOSPITAL USING SOFT SYSTEM METHODOLOGY (SSM)
  Samuel Martins Drei, ELIEZER MIRANDA, Tainá da Silva Rocha Paz, Victor Rosemberg Reis Mota, Nissia Carvalho Rosa Bergiante
• Return to presential classes during the COVID-19 outbreak: a wicked problem discussed using VFT approach
  Luciano Azevedo de Souza, Marianna Cruz Campos Pontarolo, Guilherme Regal de Castro, Danny Aronson, Nissia Carvalho Rosa Bergiante
• Action Research using SSM: Client Interactions, Project Formatting and Rich Picturing
  Chris Smith, Giles Hindle, Karthik Suresh

TE-21: Understanding the practice of Problem Structuring Methods
Stream: Soft OR and Problem Structuring Methods
Room: Virtual Room 21
Chair(s): Mike Yearworth

• Negotiating Problem Structuring Processes to Address Water Challenges in India.
  Tara Saharan, Lisa Scholten
• A framework to design and implement a multi-methodological systemic intervention
  Alberto Paucar-Caceres, Maria Alejandra Castellini
• Designing a research programme for OR
  Jan Frelin
• Reading and Discussing Fiction to Enhance Creativity and Systemic Thinking of OR Practitioners
  Leila Abuabara, Alberto Paucar-Caceres, Daniela Simonini Villas Boas, Mischel Carmen N. Belderrain

TF-21: Methodological and practical contributions of Soft OR/PSMs to Policy Making - Session B
Stream: Soft OR and Problem Structuring Methods
Room: Virtual Room 21
Chair(s): Irene Pluchinotta, Ine Steenmans

• Soft OR as a Problem Structuring Method: Three Case Studies
  Michael Howlett, Ching LEONG
• The need for problem structuring in modelling the transition to net-zero emissions
  Rachel Freeman
• Power/knowledge and decision support to environmental policy making
  yves meinard

WA-21: Use of Online Group Support Systems with Problem Structuring Methods
Stream: Soft OR and Problem Structuring Methods
Room: Virtual Room 21
Chair(s): Colin Eden, Mike Yearworth

• Remote decision-making through a new software combining the Strategic Choice Approach and a Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis
  Elena Todella, Isabella Lami
• Designing AI research to foster community engagement
  Christina Phillips
• A Problem Structuring Method implemented using a Group Support System
  Mike Yearworth, Leroy White