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Posted by Fabian Fabian <f_fabian@yahoo.com> Let me express part of our dream: Problems will be modeled helped by intelligent software that will recognize natural language. People will naturally make decisions thinking generatively rather than reactively. Visual communication will be ubiquitous. SD ...

Posted by Fabian Fabian <f_fabian@yahoo.com> Jack, If we refer to Donnella Meadows ""Places to intervene in a System"" , one could assume that for designing powerful solutions/interventions one should always dig down until reaching the paradigm level. Although that would be truth...

Posted by Fabian Fabian <f_fabian@yahoo.com> Hi All, Just adding to Bill's reflection, in real life, problems may have two levels of aggregation working concurrent and interdependently, one of them more suitable for being modeled with SD software, and the other by DES or ABS. Examples abound, e.g. h...

Posted by Fabian Fabian <f_fabian@yahoo.com> Hello Ralf, Although not the same thing, I've found ""The Systems Thinking Mini Sim"" useful for that purpose. http://www.learninglandscapes.com/minisim.html Be well... Fabian Szulanski Director, System Dynamics Centre, Instituto Tecno...

Posted by Fabian Fabian <f_fabian@yahoo.com> About Models QA: In the abscence of an ""ISO SDM"", there are two types of filters that any model of any type could be subject to: Model Verification and Model Validation. The latter has as a resource a specific battery of tests tailor...

Posted by Fabian Fabian <f_fabian@yahoo.com> Dear All, I've just run into this newspaper article from some months ago. Sorry it is in Spanish, and sorry if this is a re-post. http://www.clarin.com/suplementos/rural/2007/06/16/r-01439110.htm Be well... Fabian Szulanski System Dynamics Centre Director...

Posted by Fabian Fabian <f_fabian@yahoo.com> Dear All, Due to specific inquiries from colleagues attending the Int'l SD Conference at Boston, the Academic Commitee of the 5th Latin American SD Conference has decided that, instead of evaluating extended abstracts, people's work is going to be evaluat...

Posted by Fabian Fabian <f_fabian@yahoo.com> Dear All, We hope you are doing OK. We continue receiving your extended abstracts. We friendly remind you that Aug 2nd has been defined as due date for submit the 4 page documents. Please send them in MS Word, but NOT for Windows Vista, to our email addre...

Posted by Fabian Fabian <f_fabian@yahoo.com> Kazem, If the operational reality you are trying to model is without feedback (assuming you're modeling a slice of reality which has that kind of structure), then you'll find yourself having a valid system dynamics model, even though it is without feedbac...

Posted by Fabian Fabian <f_fabian@yahoo.com> Dear Colleagues, In the context of the annual conferences organized by the latin american chapter of the International System Dynamics Society; the Buenos Aires Institute of Technology (ITBA), through the Department of Industrial Engineering, and its Syst...

Posted by Fabian Fabian <f_fabian@yahoo.com> Hi All, Here is what this discussion list generated by 1997 about SD elevator speaches: http://www.ventanasystems.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1787 Be all well, Fabian Szulanski Director System Dynamics Centre Posted by Fabian Fabian <f_fabian@yahoo.com> p...