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Posted by Jim Duggan <JAMES.DUGGAN@NUIGALWAY.IE> Hi... you could consider the average processing time of the wholesalers, which could be calculate as Backlog/Fulfilment Rate, and so the wholesaler with the lowest time could be selected. Also think of what metrics companies use to select a vendor (yo...

Posted by Jim Duggan <JAMES.DUGGAN@NUIGALWAY.IE> Hi Bill, I'd agree with your analysis on emergence, in that it is the overall behaviour of a system that results from the subset of policies, and as such ""emerges"" from the inherent dynamic complexity. I think there are good exam...

Posted by Jim Duggan <JAMES.DUGGAN@NUIGALWAY.IE> Hi, I'd be interested to hear people's views on what the best teaching model(s) are to start with when moving from Causal Models to Stock and Flow models. Ideally, I think such a model should be close to its causal loop equivalent, have interesting fe...

Posted by Jim Duggan <JAMES.DUGGAN@NUIGALWAY.IE> >>===== Original Message From system dynamics listserve >>Posted by ""Jay Forrest"" <systems@jayforrest.com> Many thanks Jay, that was really useful! I must try and work it into my teaching for next year, particularly because it is...

Posted by Jim Duggan <JAMES.DUGGAN@NUIGALWAY.IE> >>Posted by ""Jay Forrest"" <systems@jayforrest.com> >>The exceptionally simple Barry Richmond Digital Equipment model of one >>stock/one flow (customers needing support and computer sales, respectively) >>strikes me as the near ep...

Posted by Jim Duggan <JAMES.DUGGAN@NUIGALWAY.IE> Hi, At this years Boston conference, I noticed that a number of presenters made use of existing and well known SD models as part of their work (for example, the long wave economic model, the boom and bust model, the beer game...) In other disciplines,...