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There was a reasonable model presentened by a WPI undergrad,
Bruce Skarin, at the NECSI conference:

http://communities.msn.com/TerrorDynamics

Click the links button on the left to get to the report and model.

Corey Lofdahl
From: corey lofdahl <lofdahl@alum.mit.edu>

On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, John Gunkler wrote: > Since this is all highly speculative, might I contribute a further dynamic > hypothesis? If I might generalize Gunklers argument, it appears that the dynamics between Presley and Parker are more complicated than the "arms race" scenario offerred b...

One of the great things about studying system dynamics is that, after a while, you can recognize feedback-based dynamics in the most unexpected places. I was on an plane recently, reading some well written and entertaining though undeniable dreck about Elvis ("King of Kings," by James Wolc...

If I might be so bold, my 1997 dissertation uses both diffusion and SD models to get at different aspects of the global system, specifically addressing the relationship between trade and the environment. An early version can be viewed online at http://socsci.colorado.edu/~lofdahl/dis (cf. statistica...

I suggest reading, Morecroft, J. 1983. "System dynamics: portraying bounded rationality" Intl Journal of Mgmt Science 11(2), 131--42. Bounded rationality encompasses the notion that decision makers in the real world base their decisions on few and certain data as opposed to all possible an...

Ive organized my system dynamics case studies according to the "reference mode" concept, which breaks model development into the following five steps: (1) identify the timeframe and major themes of the study, (2) describe and develop the theory that motivates and organizes the study, (3) i...