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Geoff says: >By persisting in quantifying what >cannot be quantified we risk producing models which are misleading and maybe >even fundamentally wrong. But if such "soft" variables are crucial to the policy dynamics of the system, then the only absolutely sure way we can be wrong is to fol...

>I am doing work on epidemics and spread of information, and I am attempting >to understand these models within systems dynamics. However I am having >trouble constructing the causal loop diagram for the simple two >compartmenet epidemic. You might look at the note called "Problems with Causal ...

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Jack Homer and I have been corresponding about the resource allocation problem off-line, and Im discovering just how messy this can be. Theres a lot here to think about, ranging from how to get a system dynamics model to allocate in some optimal way, which people might not be capable of doing, to ho...

Jim Hines notes that the simple familiar weighted average scheme for allocating time among several competing activities wont give sensible results when one has more time available than is needed by the sum of all the activities. Since I seldom have enough time, that seldom occurs to me, so... Why no...

At 10:03 PM -0500 12/13/99, Steve Roderick wrote: >Can anyone out there offer suggestions as to how one might model decisions >concerning resource allocation? Time is the example I am thinking of >mostly. With only a given amount available, how can it best be managed. One simple but very adaptable a...

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