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In Depth Tutorials and Information
Table 2.4
Selected
Quantitative
and
Qualitative
Methodologies
for
the
CLIOS
Process
Quantitative
or Qualitative
CLIOS Process Step
Methodology
Description
CLIOSStep1:
Describe CLIOS
system
Datacollectionand
stakeholdersurveys
andinterviews
Qualitative
Interactive and written interviews with people with
knowledge, expertise, and critical interest in the
system, and data collection from existing
published info on system
Delphiprocess
Qualitative
Structured process for stakeholder knowledge
collection and distillation with controlled opinion
feedback (Adler and Ziglio, 1996)
Requirements
Elicitationand
Analysis
Qualitative
Process that identiies and extracts the necessary
attributes, capabilities, characteristics, or quality of
systems from stakeholders (Young, 2001)
MutuallyExclusive,
CollectivelyExhaustive
(MECE)analysis
Qualitative
Information grouping process dividing information
into subgroups that are collectively comprehensive
and that do not overlap (Rasiel, 1999)
CLIOSSteps2,3,4,and5
:
Identify subsystems, populate
them, and identify components
and links within each
CausalLoop
Diagramming(Systems
Mapping)
Qualitative
Systems diagramming process visualizing how
interrelated variables within a system affect one
another (Sterman, 2000)
Stakeholder-Assisted
ModelingandPolicy
Design(SAM-PD)
process
Qualitative
Collaborative stakeholder process using insights
from systems thinking, conlict assessment, and
linguistics to extract stakeholder knowledge for
systems representation (Mostashari, 2005)
