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This is a reminder of the Modeling Assistance Workshop at the upcoming International System Dynamics Conference in Palermo, Italy. GENERAL The Modeling Assistance Workshop at last years Atlanta conference was so well received that the Society requested that it be continued and expanded this year. So...

Lebo, In SD, information about system states are fed back to the rate equations. The rate equations represent business policies from which proceed actions which change the states of the system. Much of system dynamics is focused on identifying the best policies. If system dynamics is used to identif...

Bill, Im not an expert, but it strikes me that Chapter 16 of John Stermans "Business Dynamics" textbook is about just such forecasts as you describe. See the explanation of the trend function in Section 16.1, and also the forecast function on page 640. Why could such forecasts not be used ...

Chris, In my opinion the problem for SD in a community is not working on one or two community issues using SD, but rather the sustainability of system dynamics capacity and utilizatoin within the community. To address this issue in Door County and Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, we combined a community SD ...

As part of the Modeling Assistance Workshop (MAW) at the upcoming International System Dynamics Society Conference in Atlanta, we will be hosting a roundtable on "system dynamics and GIS (geographic information system) modeling." This is in response to the following question by a researche...

REMINDER: MODELING ASSISTANCE WORKSHOP: to be held on Thursday, July 26th, from 10:30 till noon at the International System Dynamics Conference in Atlanta (per June 18 schedule from the System Dynamics Society website). So far we have seven modeling assistance questions from six modelers. More infor...

ANNOUNCEMENT - MODELING ASSISTANCE WORKSHOP - at the 2001 International System Dynamics Conference - Atlanta - July 23-27: We are planning for a 1.5 hour workshop during which modelers can seek feedback on their specific modeling questions from modeling coaches. Questions may relate to a specific mo...