The actor-option framework: A general framework for modelling socio-technical systems in transition
Topics in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, cilt.24, ss.407-418, 2014 (Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 24
- Basım Tarihi: 2014
- Doi Numarası: 10.1007/978-3-319-02493-6_25
- Dergi Adı: Topics in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Scopus
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.407-418
- Anahtar Kelimeler: Modelling, Simulation, Socio-technical transitions
- Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
A very fundamental need in transition studies is a general modelling framework that allows representing the state of different systems, as well as the change processes related to reinforcing or counteracting their transitions. Such a framework is needed in order to be able to benchmark different transition cases and to integrate case-specific insights for developing general understanding. This chapter briefly presents a general modelling framework, Actor-Option Framework (AOF), for modelling transitional change processes of socio-technical systems. The framework provides a toolbox with conceptual components and a structure about the way these components can be combined for representing a particular system of concern. AOF is based on an extensive set of empirical cases on technological change and socio-technical transitions. The general applicability and appropriateness for developing quantitative and qualitative models of change is assessed through a set of modelling exercises.