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Posted by George Richardson <gpr@albany.edu> Years ago, I assigned one of my doctoral seminars the task(s) of building formal models of all the archetypes in the Fifth Discipline and in the Pegasus publications by Dan Kim. It was a revealing exercise. Some are trivial, e.g., growth to a limit or esc...

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I must admit to more than a little pique at this ongoing discussion. Sorry about that; please forgive what follows if it bugs you. It is probably far too self-centered and impolite for me to point out that the only example (to my knowledge) of a system dynamics model put forward to address the quest...

On Thursday, May 1, 2003, at 07:55 AM, ALLOCAR SRASBOURG wrote: > As a businnesman I have many other friends in business and I have too > a board with administrators and family stock holders. While being very > interested in SD, I have not the > intention to talk to any of these people about SD. > >...

On Friday, April 25, 2003, at 05:05 AM, Finn Jackson wrote: > For a model to truly "learn" it would have to be able to rewrite its > own > equations. This is the prevailing wisdom. However, I do not think it is an adequate answer to the question of whether models can learn. For example, a ...

On Sunday, March 2, 2003, at 03:49 PM, Jim Hines wrote: > (1) Jim Thompsons most important question is whether the users can > offer any kind of incentive to vendors for incorporating the ability to > export and import SMILE files. Nothing very good comes to my mind, > which is why its such a dandy ...

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On Thursday, May 2, 2002, at 05:41 AM, Niall Palfreyman wrote: > the final debriefing discussion > took about 30 minutes. Theres a lot to talk about and learn about in a debrief of the beer game. It commonly takes about 90 minutes. The System Dynamics Society has a video tape, I believe, of John Ste...

On Wednesday, April 10, 2002, at 01:41 PM, Beck, Peter [AMSTA-AR-FSF-X] wrote: > My question to the list is do system/SD models have this type of diversity > or do they all fall into one class, [...] Well, first and foremost, theyre all about dynamics, so I guess thats one class of system. But there...

On Wednesday, March 20, 2002, at 02:07 PM, sheldon friedman wrote: > The > extraction of knowledge for any computer program or the creation of a > computer program is still biased by what the programmer perceives as > correct. Any progam that we use will contain the bias of the programmer > or that ...

[Hosts Note: This message is being resent as it showed up blank before] On Wednesday, March 20, 2002, at 02:07 PM, sheldon friedman wrote: > The > extraction of knowledge for any computer program or the creation of a > computer program is still biased by what the programmer perceives as > correct. A...

On Wednesday, February 27, 2002, at 10:38 AM, jnoble1@mmm.com wrote: > I would like to pose the following question to the SD list. What > research as > been done in formal heuristics/methodologies/techniques for extracting, > from a > system or problem domains written textual descriptions, system va...

On Friday, March 8, 2002, at 02:46 AM, Pieter van der Hijden wrote: > If we could agree on some special codes to insert in our texts and have > the discipline to apply them, intelligent querying and searching of our > texts will be possible. Pieters description sounds interesting. Id suggest Pieter,...

>As Bill Braun pointed out, one problem with this formulation is the more >attributes you add to the attractiveness function, the more volatile >it becomes. Thats probably true if one thinks about the equation in isolation, but very likely to be false when all the variables are interacting together ...

Id like to compile a list of the uses of system dynamics in government, including agencies that use it regularly, individuals to contact, important studies (who did them and for whom), and even "failures." Im after uses IN [by, for] government, not studies ABOUT government or economics or ...

Kim wrote: >The idea was simple - run a two-part, overlapping conference, e.g. >*** Day 1 primarily for academics (but open to any practitioners with an >interest in going deep) >*** Day 4 primarily for practitioners (but open to any academics with a keen >interest in application) >*** substantial o...

People wrote: >Definition: The order of a system is the number of stocks that are >connected to flows, _minus_ the number of stock pairs which are >connected by conserved flows. > >I guess I do still have one issue remaining: What about a system of >three stocks A, B and C, with a conserved flow fro...

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>I wrote: > >> ... I cant see what this teaches me about complex systems... > >And Niall wrote: ...My first reaction was: "What a silly question - >doesnt the man know _anything_ about complexity?" Then I started trying >to think of a good response, and found to my dismay that I couldnt. T...

Concerning the group milling around exercise in which everyone tries to stay equidistant from two people that individual privately selected: Ive done this several times, and thought about (but not for very long), and I cant see what this teaches me about complex systems. Could someone enlighten me? ...

This conference, held in January every year ("off-season" to our usual summer conference), is becoming very interesting to system dynamicists. Enjoy -- ...George Call For Papers for MODELING NONLINEAR NATURAL AND HUMAN SYSTEMS MINITRACK (Formerly Agent-Based and System Dynamics Minitrack) ...