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by gbackus@boulder.earthnet.net
Wed May 08, 1996 7:47 am
Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
Topic: Price and Carbon Emissions Limitations
Replies: 4
Views: 5030

Price and Carbon Emissions Limitations

For Agus Sari: The Europeans take GHG much more seriously than does the US. Cambridge Econometrics Ltd. (Terry Barker, CEO) out of the UK has been looking at the feedback impacts of this problem for years in the UK and for the European Commission. They use I/O with cointegration. (Cointegration coul...
by gbackus@boulder.earthnet.net
Wed May 01, 1996 11:04 am
Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
Topic: Discrete Feedback
Replies: 0
Views: 2130

Discrete Feedback

Relatvie to discrete systems, Joel Rahn asked "Do you have a reference or two for this kind of analysis (mode splitting)? I am not sure I see how it can be done in a discrete-event model. Is the feedback you mention here based on policies or is it purely random (a certain percentage of defectiv...
by gbackus@boulder.earthnet.net
Mon Apr 29, 1996 11:36 am
Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
Topic: discrete vs. continuous simulation
Replies: 17
Views: 19580

discrete vs. continuous simulation

As has been noted by many, this discussion is very old. Most engineering simulationists have lived this problem since the 60s. The Apollo space missions and nuclear power simulations lived (and died) based on the appropriate delineation of this issue. At Purdue Universitys School of Industrial Engin...
by gbackus@boulder.earthnet.net
Mon Apr 22, 1996 2:02 pm
Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
Topic: SD and conflict resolution
Replies: 2
Views: 3169

SD and conflict resolution

This is for Drew (apjones@MIT.edu) who wanted some contacts for the use of SD in litigation (conflict resolution). Much has occurred in the energy and environmental regulatory areas over the last wo decades. Here are a few starting points. Andy Ford has several papers on his work while at Los Alamos...
by gbackus@boulder.earthnet.net
Fri Apr 19, 1996 5:04 pm
Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
Topic: Reliable models: Part MMMCXXVII
Replies: 0
Views: 1545

Reliable models: Part MMMCXXVII

This discussion has now entered the stage of ruffled feathers with the feel of the Inquisition and the common ground of the Scopes trial on evolution versus creationism. John Sterman and George Richardson are holding up well, but it would seem their agnostic scientific approach badly confronts the f...