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by Martin Schaffernicht
Wed Dec 08, 2004 10:05 am
Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
Topic: Mental models, cognitive maps and causal diagrams
Replies: 9
Views: 14389

Mental models, cognitive maps and causal diagrams

Dear John, that was a very interesting message, thank you. I just read a paper by Mingers (multi-metyhodology) who makes a very similar distinction between ""cognitive mapping"" and ""system dynamics"". (I'll have to inquire more about the nature of the demarc...
by Martin Schaffernicht
Fri Dec 03, 2004 3:05 pm
Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
Topic: Mental models, cognitive maps and causal diagrams
Replies: 9
Views: 14389

Mental models, cognitive maps and causal diagrams

Hello, I'm ""academically"" trying to understand the relationship between ""system dynamics"" -modeling and models- and learning. I believe that different versions of a SD model can be used to infer past learning steps, since there is some connection between t...
by Martin Schaffernicht
Fri Jun 04, 2004 10:47 am
Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
Topic: Successive versions of a model
Replies: 4
Views: 6319

Successive versions of a model

Dear Members, if SD modeling can be understood as part of inquiry cycles (for instance the figure in the introductory part of Sterman 2000, p.34), then it might well be that a model ""M"" that has been developed and used (as ""valid"") at a point in time "...