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by John Gunkler
Wed Dec 15, 2004 10:57 pm
Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
Topic: Fuzzy logic, SD, and Business Policies
Replies: 3
Views: 8929

Fuzzy logic, SD, and Business Policies

Granted, it's been awhile since I used fuzzy logic -- but as I recall, some of the best ways to represent fuzzy logic involved the use of graphs. Doesn't using non-linear graphical functions to represent relationships in our models pretty much accomplish what fuzzy logic tries to do? From: "&qu...
by John Gunkler
Sun Jun 06, 2004 12:14 am
Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
Topic: Successive versions of a model
Replies: 4
Views: 6331

Successive versions of a model

I nominate the hog commodity market model originally published by Meadows in his classic book on commodity cycles, and partially updated by Sterman. I tried and tried to make either model work with current hog market numbers and failed to get it to behave -- probably due to me ineptitude. (However, ...
by John Gunkler
Fri Apr 30, 2004 4:48 pm
Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
Topic: Collaborative Modeling Tools
Replies: 9
Views: 7803

Collaborative Modeling Tools

We had good luck with Windows SharePoint Services, but you need to have set up a network with Windows Server to use it. The SharePoint Services application was easy to set up and use and had very nice whiteboard features for live meetings. From: ""John Gunkler"" <jgunkler@sprintm...
by John Gunkler
Tue Apr 20, 2004 5:31 pm
Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
Topic: Resource structure of collaboration and learning organizatio
Replies: 10
Views: 7624

Resource structure of collaboration and learning organizatio

I hope your query isn't just supplying me an excuse to pontificate, but I've been wanting to write about ""learning organizations"" for a long time. Without a sensible notion of what that animal is, any attempt to study or model mechanisms within that creature is doomed to frustr...