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John Mingers
Researcher at University of Kent
Publications - 193
Citations - 18212
John Mingers is an academic researcher from University of Kent. The author has contributed to research in topics: Information system & Soft systems methodology. The author has an hindex of 63, co-authored 193 publications receiving 17164 citations. Previous affiliations of John Mingers include Kent State University & University of Warwick.
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Combining IS Research Methods: Towards a Pluralist Methodology
TL;DR: It is suggested that research results will be richer and more reliable if different research methods, preferably from different (existing) paradigms, are routinely combined together.
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Rational analysis for a problematic world revisited : problem structuring methods for complexity, uncertainty and conflict
Jonathan Rosenhead,John Mingers +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, Rosenhead and Mingers present a new Paradigm of Analysis, called SODA, which is a new paradigm of analysis for analysis in the context of M&A.
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Critical Heuristics of Social Planning: A New Approach to Practical Philosophy
TL;DR: This book discusses Kantian A Priori Science and the Systems Idea and the Critically-Heuristic Turn, and the case of the 1976 Areawide Health Systems Plan for Central Puget Sound, which pointed towards a "Purposeful Systems" Paradigm of Planning.
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An Empirical Comparison of Pruning Methods for Decision Tree Induction
TL;DR: This paper compares five methods for pruning decision trees, developed from sets of examples, and shows that three methods—critical value, error complexity and reduced error—perform well, while the other two may cause problems.
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Multimethodology: Towards a framework for mixing methodologies
John Mingers,John Brocklesby +1 more
TL;DR: A framework that can attend to the relative strengths of different methodologies and provide a basis for constructing multimethodology designs is described, and a systematic way of decomposing methodologies to identify detachable elements is presented.