Aim & Scope
Society faces many significant challenges: pollution, poverty, pain, terrorism, crime, greenhouse effect, war, disease, starvation, road accidents, inflation/deflation, unemployment, pornography, great suffering, ignorance, pesticide poisoning, falsehood, etc. It could be argued that scientists have spent too much time on many not-so-urgent issues and too little effort on these challenges. IJSSS addresses the barriers between: social and natural sciences, theory and applications, hard decision models and soft ones, different business disciplines, government and industry, ivory tower and real society.
Topics covered include:
Analytical hierarchy process, data envelopment analysis;
Behavioural science, clinical psychology, ethics;
Benchmarking, organisational informatics;
Business strategy;
Decision support systems, decision theory, computer simulation;
[Urban] development policy/management, economics, geography/society;
Education, healthcare and legal systems;
E-government, politics, public/international affairs, e-society;
Environmental protection, sustainable development;
Expert systems, fuzzy logic, goal programming;
Information sciences/technology, IT and organisations;
Media and communications, knowledge management;
Science, technology and society;
Social informatics, networking, psychology, responsibility;
Sociology, social sciences, social security systems, socio-technical networks.
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