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Posted by Tom Forest <tforest@prometheal.com> Bob and I are in noisy agreement. Not wanting to reinvent the wheel, I refer to John Sterman's ""Steps of the modeling process,"" Table 3-1 on page 86 of Business Dynamics. If we included just this in the ""Submissions"...

Posted by Tom Forest <tforest@prometheal.com> Conceptualizing a model about improving modeling standards in the SD journal or at the conference, my thoughts turn to indicated, desired, and expected quality standards. Where's anybody's motivation to build higher quality models? Where are the society'...

Posted by Tom Forest <tforest@prometheal.com> Where are our policy levers for this problem? Practically implementing any of the recommendations throughout the field would be impossible outside of the SD conference and journal. The only current policy lever is through the conference review process. T...

Posted by Tom Forest <tforest@prometheal.com> I resisted this thread for a long time, but Yaman Barlas' thoughtful posting of March 24 kept summoning from my inbox and would not be filed away until I replied to it. So saying... When I use the term ""System Dynamics"" with people,...

Posted by Tom Forest <tforest@prometheal.com> With respect to David Corbin's advocacy of a MUCH longer timeframe for the model, and notwithstanding my affection for such models, I think that the dynamics of interest here are indeed captured in the geologically minuscule intervals of human lifetimes:...

Posted by Tom Forest <tforest@prometheal.com> John Gunkler writes: ""Whatever is in the headlines today could benefit from a systems analysis"" Now that's an inspirational challenge, and something to aspire to! On a related topic, I was going through some old files and found a co...

Posted by Tom Forest <tforest@prometheal.com> Jim Hines related an interesting anecdote about growing like weeds. Ecologically, weeds are fast-growing plants that take advantage of disturbances like fires and floods to propagate widely, inadvertently creating a more hospitable environment for slower...