System Dynamics 96

[GR383@cnsvax.albany.edu (George]

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System Dynamics 96

The fourteenth international conference of the System Dynamics Society will be
held July 22-25, 1996, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 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 with
deliberate opportunities for relaxed social and professional interaction.
Plenary sessions will feature refereed 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

The program will include tutorial sessions and workshops led by senior
people in the field to provide an introduction to system dynamics,
facilitate moving from systems thinking to systems simulation, explore
current software, and experience simulation-based flight simulators and
learning laboratories.

Location
The conference will be held at the Cambridge Center Marriott Hotel, Kendall
Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Less than a block from MIT and the
Kendall Square subway station, the site is convenient to public
transportation providing easy access to and from Bostons Logan airport and
downtown Boston. The central location of the Conference and the richness of
the Boston area makes this an ideal site for companions and children to
accompany conference participants.

Abstracts, Presentations, Papers, and Conference Proceedings
Submissions for conference presentations and papers are invited. A written
paper is required for plenary presentations but not for parallel sessions.
Abstracts for all presentations are due by January 1, 1996, to either of
the program cochairs listed below. They will be peer reviewed, and
acceptances mailed February 1.

Plenary presentations will selected from completed papers only, submitted
by April 15, 1996. Notice of invitation to submit a paper for
consideration for a plenary session will be mailed February 1 when notices
of accepted abstracts are mailed. Material for the conference proceedings
is due April 15, 1996. Each presentation, including plenary papers, will
be limited to at most four pages in the Proceedings. Presenters are
invited to put in the Proceedings an extended abstract, or copies of
presentation slides reduced to fit two-to-four transparencies per page, up
to a total of at most four pages. Instructions for format will be sent
with acceptances in February.


Contacts
Conference chair
Alexander L. (Jack) Pugh
49 Bedford Road, Lincoln, MA 01773
(617-259-8259; SDSociety@aol.com)

Program cochairs
John D. Sterman
Sloan School of Management, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02142 (617-253-1951;
JSterman@MIT .edu)

George P. Richardson
Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, State University of New York
at Albany, Albany, NY 12222 (518-442-3859; G.P.Richardson@Albany.edu)

Sponsors
GKA Incorporated
High Performance Systems Inc.
Pegasus Communications, Inc.
Powersim Corporation
Pugh-Roberts Associates
Ventana Systems, Inc.

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George P. Richardson G.P.Richardson@Albany.edu
Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy GR383@Albnyvms.bitnet
State University of New York at Albany Phone: 518-442-3859
Albany, NY 12222 FAX: 518-442-3398
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