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by Jay W. Forrester
Wed Oct 13, 2004 8:16 pm
Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
Topic: Discrete-flow modelling for business simulation
Replies: 7
Views: 7241

Discrete-flow modelling for business simulation

Many people seem to believe that they must model the discreteness of orders and payments because, at the micro-level, the transactions are discrete. However, most policy issues deal with average overviews of the micro level and can be more simply handled as continuous flows. In the situation below, ...
by Jay W. Forrester
Thu May 20, 2004 3:36 pm
Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
Topic: Stock and Flow Models of Supply and Demand
Replies: 5
Views: 7067

Stock and Flow Models of Supply and Demand

The first published system dynamics model of commodity cycles is in: Meadows, Dennis L., 1970. Dynamics of Commodity Production Cycles. Waltham, MA: Pegasus Communications. 104 pp. Libraries may have copies that show earlier publishers. You will find some twenty references in the System Dynamics Bib...