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Posted by <rgd6@cornell.edu> Society members may be interested in a very readable fishery paper in the newest edition of the on-line journal: Ecology and Society. This synthesis paper by James Wilson of the University of Maine is very much worth reading by system dynamicists who deal with fisheries ...

Posted by <rgd6@cornell.edu> Jonah: I am not familiar with the literature you mention, but as I read your post a questions/points came to mind. One component of successful team members is the openness of their mental models to adaptation and change in the face of new, or even contradictory, informat...

Posted by rgd6@cornell.edu I received this message (via another list) regarding employment opportunities and thought people here might be interested. - Richard _____________________ Richard G. Dudley Bogor, Indonesia please reply to Richard.Dudley@attglobal.net http://pws.prserv.net/RGDudley/ Begin ...

Posted by <rgd6@cornell.edu> I agree with Tom. The attempt2 is by far the most intuitive, at least for me. Nothing wrong with fish bones or insects! I find the tradit my second favorite. Attempt2 also gives an intuitive feel for the role of the delta t. _____________________ Richard G. Dudley please...

Posted by <rgd6@cornell.edu> The following is a response from Joe Woefel regarding the ""Galileo"" software for analyzing causal relationships obtained in interviews. Note: The web site for these software packages is: http://www.galileoco.com/index.htm -----Original Message----- ...

Posted by <rgd6@cornell.edu> Posted on behalf of Carol Colfer: In response to the interchange between Kim and Ben: The first idea that came to mind, based on Ben's matrix idea, was the Galileo methodology (which is designed to produce cognitive maps). As designed it simply shows cognitive distance a...

Posted by <rgd6@cornell.edu> I just thought the following might be of interest to members of the System Dynamics Society .... which as a small group striving to make a big impact, might want to pursue the idea of open access publishing more seriously, especially if there is a need to more widely dis...

Posted by <rgd6@cornell.edu> Another issue here is that the money generated as profit is used by others to buy additional goods. Designer shoes create excess profits that are then used by the owners/stockholders to buy a BMW or two. In his interesting book ""Shoveling Fuel for a Runaway Tr...

Posted by <rgd6@cornell.edu> There is also the problem of group-think in small groups where disagreement is seen as disloyalty, and were like-minded individuals reinforce one another's conceptions and misconceptions about their ""world"". This can lead to incorrect beliefs and in...