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>More specificly my intention is to look one chain in logistics >(in my case paper-chain: paper-mill --> warehouse --> customer). >I hoping to be able to build general model of this chain and also >one specific model for one of the element (warehouse) in chain. Are you familiar with the distribution...

Last call for the Guided Study in System Dynamics for 1998-1999. Anyone in your organization who is interested should communicate with us by August 1 at: gsp-info@sysdyn.mit.edu The MIT Guided Study Program in System Dynamics is receiving applications from participants for its second year. The Progr...

In: REPLY "ownership" in the public sector (SD1622), on August 10, 1998, Donella Meadows wrote: >Given that many of the most dysfunctional systems and inadequate mental models >and insufficiently long time horizons are outside of the business world, >how do >we go to work on those? ..........

Last week the "Systems Thinking and Dynamic Modeling--A Conference for K-12 Education" was held in Durham, New Hampshire, USA. I have never before attended a conference with such a high level of excitement, confidence, sense of past accomplishment, and hope for the future. About 270 people...

You may be looking for: Alfeld, Louis Edward, 1995. "Urban Dynamics--The first fifty years." System Dynamics Review, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 199-217. --------------------------------------------------------- Jay W. Forrester jforestr@MIT.EDU Professor of Management, Emeritus and Senior Lecture...

Perhaps the following will be useful, from the System Dynamics Society bibliography: Beijdorff, R.O. 1986. "CRISYS: A Model of the Criminal Justice System in the Netherlands." In J. Aracil, J. A. D. Machuca, & M. Karsky, ed., System Dynamics: On the Move. The 1986 International Confere...

Below you will find an announcement of a study program that was sent to the system-dynamics discussion list on July 9. There have been enough responses so that we will give the program. We can accept a few more applicants. The acceptance deadline has been extended to the end of August. Anyone partic...

--------------------------------- System dynamics deals with how things change through time, which includes most of what most people find important. It uses computer simulation to take the knowledge we already have about details in the world around us and to show why our social and physical systems ...

GUIDED STUDY PROGRAM IN SYSTEM DYNAMICS In the "system-dynamics" e-mail discussion group, there have been recent requests for assistance in studying system dynamics and the "Road Maps" self study guide. The MIT System Dynamics in Education Project (SDEP) under the direction of Pr...

> As I am >quite new to this field of SD, I am still looking for basic literature. Most >of it had been written some time ago and is therefore not easily available >in libraries and/or bookstores. I think it would be useful to find some >principal thoughts in a compact form. > Perhaps the following ...

A thought resulting from Donella Meadows list of 12 places to intervene in a system: In the "Urban Dynamics" model, Forrester, Jay W., 1969. "Urban Dynamics," Portland, OR: Productivity Press. 285 pp., we found only one high-leverage policy. That policy was in low-cost housing an...

It would be very helpful if people in this discussion group would give a full identification of who they are and the organization they may work with. -------------------------------------- Jay W. Forrester Germeshausen Professor Emeritus and Senior Lecturer Room E60-389 Massachusetts Institute of Te...

Saeed mentions the Susquehena River Basin book on water resources. It does not appear in the System Dynamics Society bibliography, but the citation is: Hamilton, H.R., et al., System Simulation for Regional Analysis: An Application to River-Basin Planning. 1969, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 407 The boo...