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- Wed Jan 05, 2005 5:07 pm
- Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
- Topic: dt/time step in the real world
- Replies: 8
- Views: 15562
dt/time step in the real world
Posted by John Sterman <jsterman@MIT.EDU> Kim points out that "" we are trying to help ordinary executives to appreciate how their strategies deliver performance by building, developing and sustaining resources that are interdependent."" Kim's focus on helping real managers make ...
- Wed Dec 22, 2004 2:13 pm
- Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
- Topic: Models and Science
- Replies: 20
- Views: 37250
Models and Science
In his response to Tom Fiddaman about policy to address the risks of climate change, Mark Wallace argues that ""the only sensible public policy"" response to the threat of global warming is ""hands-off"" until science can supply definitive answers through impr...
- Thu Nov 04, 2004 5:35 pm
- Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
- Topic: ANNOUNCE Meadows Award Endowment fund drive
- Replies: 0
- Views: 7124
ANNOUNCE Meadows Award Endowment fund drive
To all supporters of system dynamics: We need your help. The System Dynamics Society announces a fundraising drive to permanently endow the Dana Meadows Student Award, given for the best work by students presented at the annual conference of the Society. Through the generosity of a diverse group of ...
- Tue Oct 19, 2004 1:13 pm
- Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
- Topic: REMINDER Modeling Urban Social Dynamics
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- Views: 4152
REMINDER Modeling Urban Social Dynamics
>This is a reminder that about this forthcoming workshop. > >Call for papers: Modeling Urban Social Dynamics >7 - 8 April 2005 > >Policymakers and academic researchers have a longstanding interest in >understanding how cities evolve and change. However, conventional >methods of modeling urban develo...
- Thu Oct 14, 2004 8:06 pm
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- Topic: ANNOUNCE Congratulations to Paulo Goncalves
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ANNOUNCE Congratulations to Paulo Goncalves
>Folks, > >I'm delighted to let you know that Paulo Goncalves has received the >2004 Doctoral Dissertation Award by the Council of Logistics >Management (CLM) for his dissertation, ""Demand Bubbles and Phantom >Orders in Supply Chains."" As it is stated in their web page, CLM >pr...
- Thu Oct 07, 2004 1:43 pm
- Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
- Topic: ANNOUNCE Cogprints adds "Social Simulation" to its pre-print
- Replies: 0
- Views: 4115
ANNOUNCE Cogprints adds ""Social Simulation"" to its pre-pri
John Sterman From: John Sterman <jsterman@MIT.EDU> >Dear Colleagues, > >As many of you are aware there is a ""movement"" amoung many academics to >""free the literature"". That is making it more available through the use >of: (A) journals that are free to acce...
- Mon Sep 13, 2004 10:01 pm
- Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
- Topic: ANNOUNCE Faculty opening in system dynamics at MIT
- Replies: 0
- Views: 4037
ANNOUNCE Faculty opening in system dynamics at MIT
Folks, The MIT Sloan School of Management invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in system dynamics, to begin Fall 2005. The position (along with two additional related openings in operations research and operations management) is described below. Candidates should have strong rese...
- Tue Aug 03, 2004 7:01 pm
- Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
- Topic: ANNOUNCE CFP: Modeling Urban Social Dynamics
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- Views: 4004
ANNOUNCE CFP: Modeling Urban Social Dynamics
FYI, John Sterman >Call for papers: Modeling Urban Social Dynamics > >7 - 8 April 2005 > >Policymakers and academic researchers have a >longstanding interest in understanding how >cities evolve and change. However, conventional >methods of modeling urban development have not >been able to capture th...
- Fri Jun 18, 2004 2:09 pm
- Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
- Topic: ANNOUNCE POSTDOC OPPORTUNITY IN CASOS AT CMU
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- Views: 4196
ANNOUNCE POSTDOC OPPORTUNITY IN CASOS AT CMU
Ths may be a good opportunity for people with system dynamics background John Sterman > >NAACSOS - http://www.casos.cs.cmu.edu/naascos/ >POSTDOC OPPORTUNITY IN CASOS AT CMU > >We are looking for a person for a PostDoc position at CMU in CASOS. >PostDoc will work in the lab to run a series of simulat...
- Wed Jun 16, 2004 3:55 pm
- Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
- Topic: Product Development Dynamics and Cost
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5736
Product Development Dynamics and Cost
Johannes asks about SD models of product development. There is a large literature applying SD to project management and product development. See Business Dynamics ch. 2 for a discussion of the Pugh-Roberts approach to project/development modeling; the book also includes references to other key works...
- Mon Jun 07, 2004 3:04 pm
- Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
- Topic: ANNOUNCE Post-doctoral position
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- Views: 4281
ANNOUNCE Post-doctoral position
A position of potential interest to the SD community John Sterman POSTDOCTORAL POSITION Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory Carnegie Mellon University The Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory (DDMLab) (www.cmu.edu/ddmlab) in the department of Social and Decision Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University (...
- Mon Jun 07, 2004 1:43 pm
- Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
- Topic: Successive versions of a model
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6387
Successive versions of a model
Martin Schaffernicht is right on when he suggests that models are always provisional and subject to change as conditions change. The best and shortest statement on this principle is from 1970, when Jay Forrester wrote a memo entitled "" 'The' Model Versus a Modeling 'Process' "",...
- Wed May 26, 2004 10:22 pm
- Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
- Topic: Donella Meadows Archive launched
- Replies: 0
- Views: 4194
Donella Meadows Archive launched
A wonderful resource for any system dynamicist. John Sterman >Press Release - May 25, 2004 > > >Donella Meadows Archive Goes Public On-Line > >Educators and others interested in sustainability have a new >resource - the Donella Meadows Archive. The Archive is an on-line >library containing nearly 80...
- Wed Apr 07, 2004 3:44 pm
- Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
- Topic: MIT system dynamics course materials on the web
- Replies: 2
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MIT system dynamics course materials on the web
Folks, I'm happy to announce that the syllabus, lecture schedule, and assignments for the introductory course in system dynamics here at MIT are now available through MIT's Open CourseWare project, at http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Sloan-School-of-Management/15-874Fall2003/CourseHome/index.htm Anyone, fr...
- Fri Feb 27, 2004 8:42 am
- Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
- Topic: IIASA job openings in Forestry, Technology, and Greenhouse G
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- Views: 3884
IIASA job openings in Forestry, Technology, and Greenhouse G
Some modeling jobs at IIASA of potential interest. John Sterman >From: "Margaret Goud Collins" <margaret.g.collins@verizon.net> >To: Friends of IIASA > >Dear Colleagues, > >The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) has >openings for 3 research scholar positions relat...
- Tue Feb 10, 2004 11:34 am
- Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
- Topic: Contact rate for word of mouth
- Replies: 9
- Views: 15318
Contact rate for word of mouth
Following Mike Beans nice reply on word of mouth models, these models are treated in depth in Chapter 9 of Business Dynamics. For an excellent application, see Urban, G., J. Hauser, and J. Roberts (1990) Prelaunch forecasting of new automobiles, Management Science 36, 401-421. Also chapter 17 in Ric...
- Wed Jan 28, 2004 9:47 am
- Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
- Topic: Can SD models be validated without being run?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 27909
Can SD models be validated without being run?
My good friend Jim Hines "question[s] whether statistical estimates have any rational claim on our attention other than widespread use and anecdotal evidence of usefulness." Jim wants rigorous demonstrations of the value of statistical reasoning and estimation methods. There are so many I ...
- Mon Jan 12, 2004 10:55 am
- Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
- Topic: Can SD models be validated without being run?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 27909
Can SD models be validated without being run?
The discussion Kim began on model "validation" has been interesting. A couple of comments. George Simpson wonders whether my argument in Business Dynamics that "validation and verification are impossible" was designed "more to shock people into paying attention than meaning ...
- Mon Jan 12, 2004 9:14 am
- Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
- Topic: Call for papers: NAACSOS 2004
- Replies: 0
- Views: 3998
Call for papers: NAACSOS 2004
Folks, this conference may be of interest; the NAACSOS community has much in common with the SD community. John Sterman From: John Sterman <jsterman@MIT.EDU> >Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 10:57:45 -0500 >From: Kathleen Carley <kathleen.carley@cmu.edu> > >NAACSOS 2004 -----June 27-29, 2004, Pittsburgh PA >...
- Sat Jan 10, 2004 4:15 pm
- Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
- Topic: NSF Human and Social Dynamics Competition
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- Views: 3673
NSF Human and Social Dynamics Competition
The US National Science Foundation is soliciting proposals for its Human and Social Dynamics program (see announcement below). This priority area for NSF includes modeling of human behavior and would be highly appropriate for many in the SD field. See the link for more info. John Sterman From: John ...
- Thu Jan 08, 2004 8:42 am
- Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
- Topic: Faculty Job Openings
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- Views: 3834
Faculty Job Openings
Folks, My colleague Prof. Yossi Sheffi is leading an important partnership between MIT and the government of Spain to create a world-class program in logistics education and research, centered in Zaragoza. Yossi and the other program participants are keen to include system dynamics in the teaching a...
- Mon Dec 22, 2003 9:33 am
- Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
- Topic: Postdocs / ICCS / Healthcare Program
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- Views: 5999
Postdocs / ICCS / Healthcare Program
Several announcements of potential interest. John Sterman From: John Sterman <jsterman@MIT.EDU> New England Complex Systems Institute Announcements -> Immediate Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunities http://www.necsi.net/education/postdoc.html -> International Conference on Complex Systems / May 16-2...
- Tue Dec 02, 2003 7:09 pm
- Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
- Topic: Manufacturing Control Systems
- Replies: 30
- Views: 52621
Manufacturing Control Systems
Jim Hines wants a model that operates in continuous time but represents discrete events. Hazhir Rahmandad and I have developed such a model, specifically a continuous time agent-based model of epidemics/diffusion dynamics in which events are discrete. Based on the classic SEIR epidemic model (see ch...
- Thu Nov 20, 2003 8:50 am
- Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
- Topic: Manufacturing Control Systems
- Replies: 30
- Views: 52621
Manufacturing Control Systems
George Simpsons challenge to Jim Hines includes modeling a process such as a construction project in which "The processes have branching and merging logic (pi-calculus), where for example a branch in the process flow may wait for another branch to arrive. E.g., the "build walls" branc...
- Wed Nov 19, 2003 7:17 am
- Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
- Topic: Call for Papers: International Conference on Complex Systems
- Replies: 0
- Views: 4763
Call for Papers: International Conference on Complex Systems
This conference should be of interest to many in the system dynamics community. John Sterman From: John Sterman <jsterman@MIT.EDU> ***** Subject: ICCS:International Conference on Complex Systems CFP ICCS:International Conference on Complex Systems CFP ------------------------------------------------...