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> >Does anyone know of any empirical work on how people respond to the use of >computers as decision support systems. The computer use could be for a >variety of purposes such as: an aid to cognitive mapping, or to understand >the dynamics of systems, or to provide mathematical calculations to aid t...

Possibly Dennis Meadows book Dynamics of Commodity Cycles would be of some
help for your commodity crop. It should be available in a university library
or from Progress Press.

Good luck!
R. Joel Rahn
From: rjrahn@microtec.net (R. Joel Rahn)

George Richardson wrote... >On could argue that "fuzzy logic" is used in almost every model system >dynamicists build. There is a fuzzy approximation theorem that says, essentially, that a TABLE function is the same as a fuzzy decision rule. The basic idea is that an input variable generat...

The only work I know of was done MANY years ago (late 60s early 70s?) by Pugh-Roberts people for Polaroid Corp. It dealt with equal opportunity issues and it was published but the reference escapes me now. Try the SD bibliography or maybe some of the original P-R people will remember it. Good luck. ...

CONFERENCE INFORMATION & PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS REVISED System Dynamics Quebec 98 The Sixteenth International Conference of the System Dynamics Society July 20 - 23, 1998 Quebec Hilton Quebec City, Canada The sixteenth international conference of the System Dynamics Society will be held Jul...

CONFERENCE INFORMATION & PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS System Dynamics Quebec 98 The Sixteenth International Conference of the System Dynamics Society July 20 - 23, 1998 Quebec Hilton Quebec City, Canada The sixteenth international conference of the System Dynamics Society will be held July 20-23,...