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- Wed May 20, 1998 2:38 pm
- Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
- Topic: Funding for Environmental SD Models? SD + GIS ?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4078
Funding for Environmental SD Models? SD + GIS ?
You may wish to contact Robbert Associates in Ottawa who have built an impressive suite of simulation tools, complete with geo-mapping capability and have a track record of applying it in Australlia. Contact Robert Hoffman at rhoffman@robbert.ca. Best of luck Bob From: Bob Walker <rjwalker@sympatico...
- Mon May 18, 1998 12:21 pm
- Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
- Topic: National Capital SD Interest Group eh?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2414
National Capital SD Interest Group eh?
Must be Canadian eh? You bet. We are pleased to announce the formation of a System Dynamics Interest Group in Canadas National Capital region of Ottawa. Our formative group represents a broad range of interests from Government, the Military, Education, Business and the Research community. With over ...
- Mon May 18, 1998 12:21 pm
- Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
- Topic: REANNOUNCE National Capital SD Interest Group eh?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2383
REANNOUNCE National Capital SD Interest Group eh?
[This is just a reposting. The last one was marked as an HTML document but was not and probably did not display right in most peoples mail readers.] Must be Canadian eh? You bet. We are pleased to announce the formation of a System Dynamics Interest Group in Canadas National Capital region of Ottawa...
- Thu Nov 27, 1997 7:25 pm
- Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
- Topic: SD and Telecom
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3153
SD and Telecom
Cyprian Smits commented on the issue of independently generated forecasts for new telecom services being somewhat less than realistic when aggregated together. I would go a little further and say that the entire global high-tech industry suffers from this delusion. As an illustration I once attended...
- Thu Oct 23, 1997 1:32 am
- Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
- Topic: System Dynamics in the elevator
- Replies: 22
- Views: 25624
System Dynamics in the elevator
"Elevator Speeches" are a very real part of our corporate culture. We use the term everyday, and in most meetings. The point is that if you cant explain something in less than a minute either you dont know what youre talking about or youre trying to embellish and inflate your own ideas wit...
- Fri Sep 26, 1997 1:40 am
- Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
- Topic: Risk Work
- Replies: 10
- Views: 9176
Risk Work
We are also very interested in the assessment of risk. In my view SD methodologies have several significant advantages in dealing with risk issues. 1. Sensitivity tests are fast and easy to implement. Several of the platforms, notably iThink and Vensim, make the mechnaics a no-brainer. Whats critica...