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Compared to the physical sciences, social sciences are more stochastic
and of a chaotic structure in mathematical terms. They mainly rely on
history, and lack, to a large extent experimental and laboratory
research. "Model" studies carry some degree of significance,
insofar as they reflect "the real world".
The economic structure, history, culture, civilization and
geostrategic position of a country are determinant factors in the setting
of goals. The process of analyzing problems, evaluating strategies and
formulating policies evolves around these factors. The scope of
scientific research should cover, with a transdisciplinary approach, the
conditions under which decision makers operate, their backgrounds,
methods they utilize in problem solving, decision-making and
implementation that involve variables. Mathematics, engineering,
medicine, biology, strategy evaluation, economics, history, sociology,
politics, cognitive human mentality and behavior and aesthetics all
occupy a place in this chaotic and complex process. The unavoidable task
in the decision-making process and in determining the observable reality
is the use of a transdisciplinary approach in viewing the operation of
the system as a whole, defining the significant variables within the
system, evaluating and quantifying them, when possible, within the whole,
with much attention to uncertainty and inconceivability.
It is the aim of the Institute of World Systems, Economies and
Strategic Research to create an efficient transdisciplinary research interaction
among academicians and decision makers within public and private sectors
at international, national, sectoral and corporate level on problem
analysis and pointing out the main variables of the observed conditions
to design and explore options and to facilitate effective
decision-making.
Professor Orhan Güvenen
Institute Founder, Director, Professor of Strategic Decision Systems,
Econometrics and International Economics
UYDYO, Main Campus
Bilkent University, 06800 Bilkent, Ankara,
Turkey.
Phone : 00-312-2902496
Fax
: 00-312-2664383
gorhan@bilkent.edu.tr
www.dsee.bilkent.edu.tr
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