ISD Conference Quebec 1998

[rjrahn@microtec.net (R. Joel Rah]

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 July 20-23, 1998, in Quebec City, Canada. The conference will attract
more than two hundred practitioners interested in policy studies based on
systems thinking and computer simulation informed by a feedback perspective.

PROGRAM

The conference will consist of plenary and parallel sessions addressing
current issues and applications of system dynamics.

Plenary sessions will feature selected presentations of current developments
in system dynamics and exemplary applications of system dynamics and systems
thinking.

Parallel sessions will cover the range of work being done by system dynamics
practitioners worldwide, including

> applications of system dynamics and systems thinking in corporate and
public policy,
> policy studies emphasizing the role of feedback,
> developments in simulation tools and techniques,
> advances in the modeling process and group model building,
> system dynamics contributions to theory building in the social and
natural sciences,
> complex nonlinear dynamic systems,
> contributions to system dynamics teaching materials and methods.

ABSTRACTS, PAPERS and PRESENTATIONS

Submissions for conference presentations including tutorial sessions and
workshops as well as papers are invited. The official language of the
conference is English. A written paper is required for plenary sessions but
not for parallel sessions. Abstracts for all presentations are due by
January 1, 1998. They will be peer reviewed and acceptances will be mailed
February 1. Abstracts should be submitted in electronic format as a plain
text (ASCII) file on DOS-compatible diskette or by e-mail to the conference
chair.

Plenary presentations will be selected from completed papers only, submitted
by April 15, 1998. Invitation to submit a paper for consideration for a
plenary session will be mailed February 1.

For those wishing to organize tutorial, workshop or special interest group
sessions around the conference dates, submit a brief description of the
activity with estimated space and time requirements to the Conference chair
before January 1, 1998.

Material for the conference proceedings is due April 15, 1998. The proceedings
will be published on CD-ROM. Presentations must be submitted in one of a
limited number of common file formats. Instructions for format will be sent
with acceptances in February.

LOCATION

The conference will be held at the Quebec Hilton, just outside the walls of
Old Quebec, a U.N. World Heritage Site, the location of the first permanent
European settlement in North America, an area rich in history and francophone
culture. Quebec City and its surroundings offer a wide variety of tourist and
cultural activities, excellent restaurants and great shopping opportunities
making it an ideal destination for companions and children to accompany
conference participants.

Quebec City is accessible by air through the Jean Lesage International Airport
in the suburb of Ste-Foy, just 20 minutes from the conference hotel and is two
and a half hours by car, bus or train from Montreal.

The Conference is registered with the Hilton International hotel chain. Room
reservations can be made through Hilton hotels anywhere in the world.

CONTACT

Conference chair

R. Joel Rahn
Departement O.S.D.
Pavillon Palasis-Prince
Universite Laval
Ste-Foy, Quebec
Canada G1K 7P4

E-mail: rjrahn@microtec.net
Joel.Rahn@osd.ulaval.ca