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True to the web, the Desert Island Dynamics link on my pages is no longer valid. The correct link is: http://web.mit.edu/jsterman/www/DID.html While looking for a new copy of DID, I ran across a few other useful resources: The PowerSim Institute has a searchable bibliography: http://www.psiminst.com...

You may have found "desert island dynamics". Theres a link to it on my web pages, http://web.mit.edu/tomfid/www. - Tom ______________________________________________________________ Thomas Fiddaman, PhD Candidate http://web.mit.edu/tomfid/www MIT Sloan School of Management, System Dynamics...

Peter Allen at Cranfield in the UK has done some very interesting spatially disaggregated urban models (of Brussels, I think), that may be relevant to your interests. Mobility wasnt the focus, but was an important component. I dont have contact information at my fingertips, but there are links to so...

Friends, I just received the following query, seeking models of waste treatment and urban recycling. While I was able to make a few general suggestions (see end of message), I dont know of any readily available models that exactly suit Mr. Yamauchis needs. I know theres been a lot of work in these a...

>Jim Craig of the American Petroleum Institute says: > >"Sachs incorrectly reports "most of the worlds known oil reserves will be >used up in 10 years", ... Let me cite the highly regarded U.S. Geological >Survey, which estimates that between 1.4 trillion and 2.1 trillion barrels >of ...

Several people have asked me for citations to Hartmut Bossels work on orientors and Bert de Vries et. al. on layering a GA onto an SD model. Thanks go to Joel Rahn for finding this one: >Hartmuts work came to mind as I read previous posts. Your item >inspired me to find one of the original reference...

Kjeld & Syeds question led me to ask what the difference is between models for the exploratory stage of strategy development and management training. The key, I think, is that in strategy development you may not have a good model of the system, probably because you dont understand the loops in a...

Kostis raised a great question and I cant wait to see all the other replies. I think theres already been a great deal of work aimed at creating models with variable structure. It generally falls into the complexity theory realm - genetic algorithms and genetic programming, classifiers, cellular auto...

A while back, Stever Wehrenberg asked me whether I knew of any utilities that could link a set of documentation (in a word processor or database) with a model. I didnt have an answer for him, but the question got me thinking about what really ought to be built into our software (or the heads of prac...

Dear Friends & Colleagues, Ive recently created a set of web pages, which may be of use to those with an interest in system dynamics or sustainable development. They contain: - a library of classic SD models and replications of models from outside SD (Dennis Meadows Dynamics of Commodity Product...

(The following is a slight rewrite of my direct response to Paige Browns query. I will try to place some of the models and papers mentioned below on a web page soon). Dear Paige, John Sterman forwarded your query about greenhouse gas policy models to me. My dissertation research involves the creatio...