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by Geoff McDonnell
Tue Jun 15, 2004 6:45 pm
Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
Topic: AnyLogic Software
Replies: 7
Views: 9692

AnyLogic Software

In response to Magdy Helal, The price you mention is the academic rate, which is significantly discounted from the full commercial price. AFAIK, in AnyLogic the simulation engine is truly hybrid, i.e. is capable of executing a concurrent interdependent and interacting mixture of continuous processes...
by Geoff McDonnell
Thu Jun 10, 2004 11:23 pm
Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
Topic: AnyLogic Software
Replies: 7
Views: 9692

AnyLogic Software

From: ""Bill Harris"" > I'm not familiar with AnyLogic, but their goals sound related to those > of Paul Fishwick in his SimPack software and in his book Simulation To my thinking, SimPack extends the DES approach whereas AnyLogic extends Agent based Simulation using OOT. They al...
by Geoff McDonnell
Wed Jun 09, 2004 10:48 pm
Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
Topic: AnyLogic Software
Replies: 7
Views: 9692

AnyLogic Software

This is the first AnyLogic discussion on this list. However a small group of SD folks met in Denver last November to critically evaluate AnyLogic over several days. Most of us were there because we needed to address more detailed subgroup or individual behaviors within the context of systems constra...
by Geoff McDonnell
Fri May 28, 2004 3:44 am
Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
Topic: System Dynamics modeling in Healthcare/ Pharmaceuticals
Replies: 6
Views: 6172

System Dynamics modeling in Healthcare/ Pharmaceuticals

Sanjoy I have just put together a spreadsheet of references for a course on Health Systems Simulation. Included in this are many SD Specific References. Hopefully this will be available on a website in a few months. In the meantime I am Happy to share the references with you or other interested peop...
by Geoff McDonnell
Thu May 20, 2004 12:46 pm
Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
Topic: Stock and Flow Models of Supply and Demand
Replies: 5
Views: 7063

Stock and Flow Models of Supply and Demand

Try Dennis L Meadows short (100p) book, Dynamics of Commodity Production Cycles Wright-Allen Press 1970 Library of Congress catalog card number 70-125415 ( I cant find an ISBN) regards geoff Dr Geoff McDonnell Director Adaptive Care Systems Research Fellow Centre for Health Informatics UNSW gmcdonne...
by Geoff McDonnell
Thu Oct 30, 2003 3:53 am
Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
Topic: Social Capital - how does it work?
Replies: 4
Views: 3987

Social Capital - how does it work?

I believe Jack Homer and Bobby Milstein have been using a public health form of this concept in their Syndemics work with CDC Atlanta. See http://www.cdc.gov/syndemics/ We (and many others esp Everett Rogers!) have also used social network analysis in the role of communication in diffusion of innova...
by Geoff McDonnell
Mon Apr 28, 2003 1:39 am
Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
Topic: SD health care system
Replies: 3
Views: 3874

SD health care system

Shierlyn Focus on a single important issue for the Philippine system such as access to high cost drugs, inequality of access, cost inflation workforce issues etc Use the data you have or the ministry has, or frameworks and data you can get from WHO such as http://www.who.int/bulletin/tableofcontents...