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One of my undergraduate students, Ian Fenty, has developed a fascinating model of how lending objectives change in cooperative finance. I think the problem and the structure he has developed is very relevant to international development finance agencies. Ian can be reached at ifenty@wpi.edu. _______...

Atma, You might wish also to contact Professors Tasrif Arif and Arsgianto at the Bundung Institute of Technology in your country. Both are very well-versed in system dynamics and are working in the area of energy. Khalid _____________________________________ Khalid Saeed Professor and Department Hea...

Dear Colleagues, I append below an announcement for two tenure track faculty positions at WPI for dissemination/nomination/application. Best, Khalid Saeed saeed@wpi.edu Worcester Polytechnic Institute Social Science and Policy Studies Department Tenure Track Faculty Openings The Social Science and P...

There are many models on those issues as many colleagues have suggested to you. A group of my students recently developed a variation on them as a class project. Please contact Eric Tapley <ewtapley@WPI.EDU> or Pallavi Hiremath <pallavi@wpi.edu> Khalid Saeed saeed@wpi.edu ___________________________...

Id recommend looking through system dynamics bibliography available on the web (http://www.vensim.com/sdmail/sdbib.html). Also see: Saeed, K. 1998. Sustainable Trade Relations in Global Economy. System Dynamics Review, Special Edition on Sustainable Development. 14(2): 107-128 Parayno, P. and Saeed,...

There are many articles on the system dynamics bibliography on these issues. Check it out. See also following books: Saeed, K. 1998. Towards Sustainable Development, 2nd Edition: Essays on System Analysis of National Policy. Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing Company. Saeed, K. 1994. Development...

Following two papers, among many others, are good examples of modeling non-quantifiable abstract concepts: Saeed, K. 1998. Maintaining Professional Competence in Innovation Organizations. Human Systems Management. 17(1): 69-87. Saeed, K. 1990. Government Support of Economic Agendas in Developing Cou...

Following paper addresses aspects of organizational culture, in particular, the types of authority, and the local and cosmopolitan orientations: Saeed, K. 1998. Maintaining Professional Competence in Innovation Organizations. Human Systems Management. 17(1): 69-87. Khalid Saeed _____________________...

My grad student Arif Mehmood developed a very interesting model of Railways Management a few years ago. He can be reached at: amehmood@engmail.uwaterloo.ca Khalid At 07:47 PM 9/30/99 -0700, you wrote: _____________________________________ Khalid Saeed Professor and Department Head Social Science and...

Jim, I have seen some of these CDs and they are excellent teaching tools. It seems Harvards case study method and its alternative developed at MIT did come together after all, but at Harvard. Khalid _____________________________________ Khalid Saeed Professor and Department Head Social Science and P...

You might wish to contact Professor James Doyle at WPI who is working in those areas using system dynamics. You can get his coordinates through our website in my signature. Also look through the description of our undergraduate major on system dynamics. Khalid Saeed _________________________________...

I have already responded to several private emails on this issue. Indeed, feedback loop is the building block of systems and a model without feedback would not create any interesting dynamics. A feedback loop must, however, have at least one stock in its circular path that decouples flows, creates i...

A good model must be identifiable in real world. Circular flows are illogical as far as the real world is concerned. A software that allows this is not appropriate for use in system dynamics modeling no matter how compact a model it creates. Khalid _____________________________________ Khalid Saeed ...

I have developed a simple model of tourism development in Sarawak, Malaysia for use as a modeling exercise for my class. Let me know if this is of interest. There are of course many other pieces of work. You might wish to look ar SD bibliography and also the SD conference proceedings. Khalid _______...

Also see System Dynamics Review. Special Edition on Sustainable Development, 14(2), edited by Saeed and Radzicki. and Saeed, K. 1998. Towards Sustainable Development, 2nd Edition: Essays on System Analysis of National Policy. Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing Company. Khalid Saeed _____________...

WPI regular courses are 7 weeks long. We offer a set of 4 courses on SD in a typical academic year. These are described at our website. Khalid Saeed From: Khalid Saeed <saeed@WPI.EDU> _____________________________________ Khalid Saeed Professor and Department Head Social Science and Policy Studies W...

Jack, I think we should now start thinking of operational means to achieve our stated objectives. I think the goal of creating a social sciences university that applies SD accross board for teaching and research is appropriate. Also a certification process for practitioners is a natural operational ...

George,

Thank you for your very succinct respnonse. Having experimented over an
extended period of time with models that showed chaos
out of modeling errors, in particular from clumsy first order control
on outflows from stocks, I
could not agree more.

Khalid
From: Khalid Saeed <saeed@WPI.EDU>

System Dynamics Visiting Scholars Program at WPI The Social Science and Policy Studies Department at WPI has initiated a new visiting scholars program in System Dynamics. Selected scholars and practitioners in the field are invited to spend a sojourn at WPI to collaborate with the SSPS faculty on re...

See SD bibliography on the socisty website, which would have many pertinent references. Also see: Saeed, K. Maintaining Professional Competence in Innovation Organizations. Human Systems Management. 17(1): 69-87. 1998. Khalid Saeed From: Khalid Saeed <saeed@WPI.EDU> _________________________________...

Dennis Meadows book " The Dynamics of Commodity Production Systems "
should be the first reading. Id again say, start with a clear problem
definition.

Khalid Saeed
From: Khalid Saeed <saeed@WPI.EDU>

You might wish to look at my PhD Dissertation at MIT titled: Rural Development and Income Distribution, The Case of Pakistan. A generalized version of the landownership/land use model developed in the dissertation also appears in: Saeed, K. 1994. Development Planning and Policy Design: A System Dyna...

Well said Jim,

Perhaps model building and experimentation with a model should come before
systems thinking not after.

Khalid
From: Khalid Saeed <saeed@WPI.EDU>

Id suggest consulting the sys dyn bibliography available from SD society. Also see following article addressing a key issue in a university context. Saeed, K. Maintaining Professional Competence in Innovation Organizations. Human Systems Management. 17(1): 69-87. 1998. Last but not least, spend some...

A paper in the special issue of SDR on sustainable development by Wils, Kamiya and Choucri is a good example of applying system dynamics modeling to issues concerning internal and external relations of a nation. I must quickly add that any modeling effort on such agenda must be preceded by a careful...