[1] Pidd, Michael, Tools for thinking. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 2003.
[2] Maguire, Steve, McKelvey, Bill, Complexity and Management: Moving From Fad To Firm Foundations. Emergence,1 (2), 1999, 19–61.
[3] Eisner, Howard, Managing Complexity Systems. New Jersey: A John Wiley & Sons, 2005.
[4] Rechtin, Eberhardt, Systems architecting; creating and building complex systems. New Jersey: P T R prentice Hall, 1991.
[5] Zarei, Behrouz, Merati, Ehsan, a Framework for Rural Productions Supply Chain Architecture Based on Rural ICT Infrastructure. Management researches in Iran, 12(4), 2009, 177-197.
[6] Pidd, Michael, Systems modelling: theory and practice. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 2004.
[7] Jackson, Michael C, Systems Thinking: Creative Holism for Manager. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2003.
[8] Maier, Mark W, Rechtin, Eberhardt, the art of systems architecting. Boca Raton: CRC Press LLC, 2000.
[9] Haskins, Cecilia, Forsberg, Kvin, Krueger, Michael, Systems Engineering. International Council on Systems Engineering, 2007, 1-304.
[10] Dickerson, Charles, Mavris, Dimitri N, Architecture and principles of systems engineering. Boca Raton: Taylor and Francis Group, LLC, 2010.
[11] Mahmoodi, Jafar, Bodaghi, Gholamreza, Process Reengineering by Using Simulation Approach (Case Study: NIORDC). Management researches in Iran, 16(4), 2013, 145-170.
[12] Ravindran, A. Ravi, Operations Research. Boca Raton: Taylor & Francis Group, 2009
[13] Rosenhead, Jonathan, Thunhurst, Colin, A Materialist Analysis of Operational Research. The Journal of the Operational Research Society, 33 (2), 1982, 111-122.
[14] Gass, Saul I, Assad, Arjang A, an Annotated Timeline of Operations Research: An Informal History. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2005.
[15] Paucar-Caceres, Alberto, Mapping the changes in management science: A review of `soft' OR/MS articles published in Omega (1973–2008). Omega, 38, 2010, 46-56.
[16] Sheikh Rezaee, Hossein, Karbasizadeh, Amir Ehsan, Introduction to the philosophy of science. Tehran, Hermes. (In Persian), 2012.
[17] Jackson, Michael C, Beyond Problem Structuring Methods: Reinventing the Future of OR/MS. The Journal of the Operational Research Society, 57 (7), 2006, 868-878.
[18] Mingers, John, Soft OR Comes of Age – But Not Everywhere! Omega, 39 (6), 2011, 729–741.
[19] Jackson, Michael C, present positions and future prospects in management science. Omega, 15 (6), 1987, 455-466.
[20] Jackson, Michael C, Systems Methodology for the Management Sciences. New York: Plenum Press, 1991.
[21] Kirby, Maurice W, Paradigm Change in Operations Research: Thirty Years of Debate. Operations Research, 55 (1), 2007, 1-13.
[22] Forrester, Jay W, System Dynamics, Systems Thinking, and Soft OR. System dynamic review, 10 (2-3), 2006, 245-256.
[23] Ritchey, Tom, Modelling Social Messes with Morphological Analysis. Acta Morphologica Generalis, 2 (1), 2013, 1-8.
[24] Khosravani, Farzaneh, azar, adel, Khodadad Hosseini, Seyed Hamid, Strategy Making Problem Structuring with JOURNEY Making and Drama Theory (Case Study: Green Gas Supply Chain). Modern researches in decisionmaking, 1(1), 2016, 103-138.
[25] Jackson, Michael C, systems approaches to management. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2000.
[26] Taket, Ann, White, Leroy, Beyond Appraisal: Participatory Appraisal of Needs and the Development of Action (PANDA). Omega, 25 (5), 1997, 523-534.
[27] Taket, Ann, White, Leroy, Partnership and Participation: Decision-making in the Multiagency Setting. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 2000.
[28] Nabavi, Lotfollah, The elements of logic and methodology, Tehran: Tarbiat Modares University Press, 2010. (In Persian)
[29] Kelley, David, The art of reasoning. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2014.
[30] Thagard, Paul, Conceptual revolutions. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1992.
[31] Mousavi, Arash, Kermanshah, Ali, Innovation Systems: A case study in the philosophical historiography of science, Tehran: National Research Institute for science policy. (In Persian), 2015.
[32] Thagard, Paul, Computational Philosophy of Science, Massachusetts: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 1988.
[33] Mingers, John, Brocklesby, John, Multimethodology: Towarda framework for Moxing Methodologies. Omega, 25 (5), 1997, 489-509.