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stocks & flows and ODEs

Posted: Tue Apr 20, 1999 3:26 pm
by Nicola BIANCHI
If the Bill Harris quote (SD2366)

See "Converting Signed Digraphs to Forrester Schematics and Converting
Forrester Schematics to Differential Equations" by J. R. Burns, IEEE Trans.
Sys., Man, Cyber. Vol. SMC-7, No. 10, Oct. 1977, pp. 695-707. (I was going
through some old files, and, no, I didnt reread it

would arouse anybodys curiosity, there is a sequel of references:

BURNS, James R., O.M. Ulgen and H.W. Beights, "An Algorithm for
Converting Signed Digraphs to Forrester Schematics", IEEE Trans. on
Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Vol. SMC-9, No. 3, March 1979, pp. 115-124

ASSOULINE, Gilles, "An Algorithmic Method for Large Scale System
Dynamics Modeling", CREST course on simulation techniques for
dynamic socio-economic systems, Arzachena (Sardinia, Italy),
October 1981 [presumably a compendium of his PhD thesis "Aide
a` lanalyse et a` la construction des grands modeles de la
Dynamique des Systemes" at the University of Paris IX Dauphine]

RAMOS, Juan M., "Some modification to the Burns Algorithm", IEEE
Trans. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Vol. SMC-13, No. 1,
Jan/Febr. 1983, pp. 108-110

DOLCI, Paolo V. and M.A. Puddu, "INFLOW: From Influence to Flow
Diagram in System Dynamics", Proceedings of the 1985 International
Conference of the Systems Dynamics Society, Vol. I, pp. 186-193,
Keystone, Colorado

GONZALES, J.C. and G. Fernandez, "EASDM: An Expert Aid for System
Dynamics Modelling", Proceedings of the 1986 International
Conference of the Systems Dynamics Society (SD: On the Move),
Vol. 2, pp. 1019-1027, Sevilla, Spain.

Dropping down this list, I wondered whether the SD software
developers (STELLA, Vensim, Powersim, etc.) make (or made) use of these
algorithms in their packages. Perhaps, they could satisfy my curiosity.
Thank you.

Regards,

From: Nicola Bianchi <lino@ian.ge.cnr.it>
Nicola Bianchi <bianchi@cst.ge.cnr.it>
CNR-CST
National Research Council (of Italy)
Centre for the History of Technology
Via Balbi, 6
16126 Genoa, Italy
http://www.ge.cnr.it/CST/M&S/

stocks & flows and ODEs

Posted: Wed Sep 08, 1999 3:12 pm
by "HARRIS,BILL (HP-LakeStevens,ex1
I lost the original, but there have been a couple of comments about
converting stocks & flows to ODEs.

See "Converting Signed Digraphs to Forrester Schematics and Converting
Forrester Schematics to Differential Equations" by J. R. Burns, IEEE Trans.
Sys., Man, Cyber. Vol. SMC-7, No. 10, Oct. 1977, pp. 695-707. (I was going
through some old files, and, no, I didnt reread it.

Bill
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