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I lost the original, but there have been a couple of comments about converting stocks & flows to ODEs. See "Converting Signed Digraphs to Forrester Schematics and Converting Forrester Schematics to Differential Equations" by J. R. Burns, IEEE Trans. Sys., Man, Cyber. Vol. SMC-7, No. 10...

I dont want to contradict the idea raised earlier that successful modeling is focused on solving a problem, not modeling a system. Having said that (the obligatory disclaimer), you might want to explore Colored Petri Nets. (No, this is not meant to restart the debate on discrete event simulation vs....

Ford Stone wrote: .................................................................... My final comment is that perhaps we might try giving this new spreadsheet software the benefit of the doubt... Im all in favor of giving people and tools chances, but I did discover something that has made me a bi...

There is a paper in the Summer, 1999 issue of National Productivity Review showing the application of SD to organizational financial management. The paper isnt heavy on SD techniques, but it does describe an approach to organizational expense management I havent seen in practice before. See "Pi...

When I saw http://www.phds.org eading/elites.html (a paper about the state of scientific productivity and education in the USA), I immediately thought of the system that produces the Beer Game dynamics (or any one of a number of analogous systems). It may also pertain to previous comments about the ...