Request of SD advice - Ph.D Thesis results
Posted: Wed Mar 13, 2024 3:50 pm
I want to make an academic inquiry regarding SD.
Currently, I'm finalizing the research for my Ph.D., where I employ SD as a modeling tool for a complex system. Essentially, without delving into specific or thematic details, in my thesis, I develop, based on literature review and expert interviews, a simulation model whose results I analyze according to the relevant state of the art. There, I examine if the obtained results align with the main current theories and utilize the model.
The consult I want to make as experts in SD are:
1. What details about modeling through SD would you expect to find in a thesis of this type? (please exclude academic requirements such as methodological details, references, citations, source usage, etc.)
I refer to what details you would expect to find (causal model, Forrester model, list of variables, formal mathematical equations used, equations used in simulation software, model testing, validation, others) and where you would expect them to be presented (in the main body, appendices, annexes, others) and in what form (graphics, tables, writing, others).
2. What information about the model can I not forget/omit under any circumstances about the model?
3. What kind of discussions about the results would you expect to read given the SD model?
4. Any recommendations that you believe could be pertinent or valuable.
I want to clarify that I have read some Ph.D. theses that employ SD as a modeling tool for various topics, and they are all different in terms of what they present and how they present it regarding the developed model.
Thank you very much in advance.
Currently, I'm finalizing the research for my Ph.D., where I employ SD as a modeling tool for a complex system. Essentially, without delving into specific or thematic details, in my thesis, I develop, based on literature review and expert interviews, a simulation model whose results I analyze according to the relevant state of the art. There, I examine if the obtained results align with the main current theories and utilize the model.
The consult I want to make as experts in SD are:
1. What details about modeling through SD would you expect to find in a thesis of this type? (please exclude academic requirements such as methodological details, references, citations, source usage, etc.)
I refer to what details you would expect to find (causal model, Forrester model, list of variables, formal mathematical equations used, equations used in simulation software, model testing, validation, others) and where you would expect them to be presented (in the main body, appendices, annexes, others) and in what form (graphics, tables, writing, others).
2. What information about the model can I not forget/omit under any circumstances about the model?
3. What kind of discussions about the results would you expect to read given the SD model?
4. Any recommendations that you believe could be pertinent or valuable.
I want to clarify that I have read some Ph.D. theses that employ SD as a modeling tool for various topics, and they are all different in terms of what they present and how they present it regarding the developed model.
Thank you very much in advance.