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Posted by John Sterman <jsterman@MIT.EDU> [The SD Mailing list is closing. Please go to http://www.systemdynamics.org/forum to post announcements and continue the discussion ] I'm delighted to report that Dennis Meadows has been awarded the 2009 Japan Prize for his pioneering work on sustainability ...

Posted by John Sterman <jsterman@MIT.EDU> FYI Faculty Positions All Ranks Health Services and Systems Research The Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore (Duke-NUS) is seeking pioneering scientists to join our faculty in the new Program in Health Services Research (HSR). A global partnership bet...

Posted by John Sterman <jsterman@MIT.EDU> Friends, The Engineering Systems Division at MIT is searching for new faculty. We are looking for =93best athletes=94 in the broad areas of ESD: =B7 Critical Infrastructures =B7 Health Care Delivery =B7 Extended Enterprises =B7 Energy and Sustainability All ...

Posted by John Sterman <jsterman@MIT.EDU> Friends, Last year the journal Production and Operations Management began to publish 1 page profiles of the most important people in the history of operations management. The current issue honors Jay Forrester (Production and Operations Management 17(4): i-i...

Posted by John Sterman <jsterman@MIT.EDU> Business Dynamics includes several models of pricing and price discovery. See ch. 13.2.12 and ch. 20, esp. 20.2.6. John Sterman Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management Director, MIT System Dynamics Group MIT Sloan School of Management Posted by John Sterman...

Posted by John Sterman <jsterman@MIT.EDU> yes indeed -- Kris was a student here at MIT Sloan and I apologize for the omission. Great work all! > This is just to note that Kristina Wile should be on the list of long-time > SD people who won the award. John Sterman Posted by John Sterman <jsterman@MIT...

Posted by John Sterman <jsterman@MIT.EDU> The MIT Sloan School System Dynamics Group is recruiting to fill a tenure-track faculty position. The announcement is below (see also http://mitsloan.mit.edu/about/faculty-openings.php#system-dynamics ). Please forward this announcement to any who may be int...

Posted by John Sterman <jsterman@MIT.EDU> I would recommend VensimPLE. VensimPLE is excellent for diagramming, including causal diagrams without stock and flow structure, stock and flow diagrams, and full diagrams that integrate the stock-flow and feedback structure. It also supports simulation, has...

Posted by John Sterman <jsterman@MIT.EDU> I'm pleased to announce that Prof. Rogelio Oliva, Texas A&M, and Michael Bean, Forio.com, have won the ""MSQ & IJSIM Highly Commended Paper Award, QUIS 10 Symposium on Service Excellence in Management 2007"" for a paper describing...

Posted by John Sterman <jsterman@MIT.EDU> A continuous time first-order system of the form 1. dx/dt = f(x) cannot oscillate, whether it is linear or nonlinear. The system has only one eigenvalue, so can never oscillate (even if it is nonlinear). To get oscillation in continuous time requires at leas...

Posted by John Sterman <jsterman@MIT.EDU> Martin Schaffernicht asks about the relationship between experimental economics and system dynamics. Experimental studies of dynamic systems are growing. Studies in SD and related fields cover both the ""theory building and testing"" and ...

Posted by John Sterman <jsterman@MIT.EDU> I am pleased to announce that, on April 17, Professor Peter Milling, who leads the system dynamics group at the University of Mannheim, will receive an honorary doctorate in management (Dr. rer. pol. h. c.) from the Engineering and Management Faculty of Bran...

Posted by John Sterman <jsterman@MIT.EDU> Bob Cavana asks excellent questions about the need for additional financial resources and the ways in which such resources might be used by the System Dynamics Society. The financial position of the society is as healthy as it is through the hard work of man...

Posted by John Sterman <jsterman@MIT.EDU> Over the last week there have been many interesting comments about whether the words ""system dynamics"" should be capitalized, and a few comments supporting the real purpose of my post on this issue, capitalizing the field of system dyna...

Posted by John Sterman <jsterman@MIT.EDU> I agree with James Melhuish -- System Dynamics is a field of inquiry, system dynamics describes the dynamics of a particular system. Further, the field is System Dynamics, not Systems Dynamics, System's Dynamics, or Systems' Dynamics. I also want to urge our...

Posted by John Sterman <jsterman@MIT.EDU> I cannot accept the idea that modelers, consultants or advisors are responsible only for helping their client make better decisions regardless of the morality of those decisions or the purpose for which their advice will be used. We all have an ethical respo...

Posted by John Sterman <jsterman@MIT.EDU> For SD approaches to climate change, see the work of Tom Fiddaman, including Fiddaman, T. Exploring policy options with a behavioral climate- economy model System Dynamics Review Volume 18, Issue 2, Date: Summer 2002, Pages: 243-267 Tom won the 2006 Forreste...

Posted by John Sterman <jsterman@MIT.EDU> Unlike a wedding anniversary, determining the exact date to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the field of system dynamics is difficult and involves a certain degree of arbitrariness. Jay joined the faculty of the Sloan School at MIT in 1956,...