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Dear Colleagues, A friend of mine is a linguist; he is interested in the evolution of language. The kind of questions he asks is "how come that french people in 1900 used different words and different grammatical constructions to express an idea <I> that french people of the year 2000 do? (Even...

Hi Dan, thanks for the info! Ill be involved in a project that aims at helping school directors improve quality by (somehow) transferring the understanding of the "experts" who design echool quality assessment in the ministry of education. The idea is that if one can elaborate a (SD) model...

Hi, I am preparing for a project that aims intervening in schools (in Chile) in order to help directors. The basic goal is to help them define what "quality of education" is in their case and how in-school agents or factors influence it, such as to identify leverage points for improving th...

Hi again, the "Hara Kiri" model is programmed to detect its own failure and to say "hey, Im not fit anymore". This means that the modeller was able to articulate the conditions that distinguish failure. Then he did not know how to produce a new model in the face of failue, and so...

Hi, Brian states that our goal is that policy-makers shall learn (and improve their policy-making). In this, human learning will not be repplaced by machine-learning. And "the greatest difficulties come in guiding human behaviour on a more visionary path." My original question has to do wi...

Hi, thanks for all the reflection and hints on written stuff. Before diving into this, I think I owe you some explanations. I am interested in modeling systems that help people learn, and not in modeling how people (do not) learn. In this sense, the "learning" I am looking for does not tak...

Hi, I am wondering if one can build a system dynamics model that "learns", for instance in a "double-loop" manner. My first explorations let me feel that this is possible only insofar as some decisions may change values of converters that are used by other decisions; but if learn...