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About the Society
The System Dynamics Society is an international, nonprofit organization devoted to encouraging the development and use of system dynamics and systems thinking around the world. With members in seventy countries, the Society provides a forum in which researchers, educators, consultants, and practitioners in the corporate and public sectors interact to introduce newcomers to the field, keep abreast of current developments, and build on each other's work.
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What is System Dynamics?
System Dynamics Forum
General issues in the field - The purpose of the forum is to make it easier to communicate, and especially to follow different discussion threads. To access the forum follow this link.
News
Future International Conference of The System Dynamics Society
2012, July 22 – 26, St. Gallen, Switzerland
2013, Dates To Be Announced, Cambridge, MA
Symposium: Perspectives on Limits to Growth: Challenges to Building a Sustainable Planet To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the launching of Limits to Growth, the first report to the Club of Rome, a joint symposium entitled “Perspectives on Limits to Growth: Challenges to Building a Sustainable Planet” will be hosted in Washington, DC by the Club of Rome and the Smithsonian Institution’s Consortium for Understanding and Sustaining a Biodiverse Planet. Please see the attached program statement. |
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| New Scientist Features Article on Limits to Growth -- 40 years later A preview of the article titled “Boom and doom: Revisiting prophecies of collapse” is available online at the link below. The article was published in the Jan.7-13 2012 New Scientist magazine. It is a brief survey and appreciation of The Limits to Growth, 40 years after its first publication. The full article is accessible to subscribers. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21328462.100-boom-and-doom-revisiting-prophecies-of-collapse.html |
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Announcing an important change to Society members' online access to the System Dynamics Review |
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Jay Forrester has been inducted into the 2011 IndustryWeek Manufacturing Hall of Fame |
| December 14, 2011- Jay Forrester has been inducted into the 2011 IndustryWeek Manufacturing Hall of Fame. This honor recognizes Jay’s pioneering work in digital computer development, and particularly his research that helped provide the foundation of modern supply chain management principles. The very first system dynamics model was Jay's model of GE's appliance supply chain, which then became the basis for his book, Industrial Dynamics. | |
The 10 Hall of Fame manufacturing executives and thought leaders are featured in this month’s issue of IndustryWeek. Congratulations to Jay! To revisit a biography of Jay Forrester titled "The power of the bond between cause and effect: Jay Wright Forrester and the field of system dynamics" by David C. Lane, published in the System Dynamics Review Special Issue: Exploring the Next Great Frontier: System Dynamics at 50, Volume 23, Issue 2-3, pages 95–118, Summer-Autumn (Fall) 2007 go to Wiley Online Library. |
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SD Case Repository Now Available
It is our pleasure to announce that the first version of the SD Case
Repository project is ready and on the web! The system dynamics case webpage <http://cases.systemdynamics.org/> provides a collection of consulting
projects that were performed after 1990 and used system dynamics as their
method.
Directed by the VP Member Services, Etiënne Rouwette, the project aims to
help clarify to (potential) users how system dynamics was successfully used
and applied to public and private organizations, and to promote applied
system dynamics studies. This website is an ongoing project. Currently
information about 36 cases is collected.
We hope to expand the collection by including more cases. If you have been
involved in a consulting project, please submit a summary of your case, in
less than 1,000 words, and with the proper citation to where it was
originally published to office@systemdynamics.org. For a case to be accepted
it must meet the following three criteria:
- It was a contracted project (with funding or in-kind support) by a private
or public organization;
- It was published in a peer-reviewed journal, book, or conference
proceedings, 1990 or after; and
- It reports on a fully-developed simulation modeling analysis.
We would like to thank everybody who has been helping the VP Member Services
in this project including Bahri Khairul, Fleur van den Elzen, Jack Homer,
David Lane, Kim Warren, David Ford, Bob Eberlein, Navid Ghaffarzadegan, and
many others.
The October 2011 Newsletter is available.
Link to the newsletter page
| 01-26-2012: SD Career Link | 12-08-2011: Conference Page |
| 01-26-2012: Conference Sponsors | 12-08-2011: System Dynamics Review List |
| 01-19-2012: Home Index | 12-01-2011: Distance Learning |
| 12-28-2011: Courses in SD-Canisius | 10-31-2011: Newsletters |
| 12-15-2011: Society Sponsors |
Link to the news archive page.
Contact Information
For information contact Roberta L. Spencer, Executive Director:
| Postal address The System Dynamics Society Milne Hall 300, Rockefeller College 135 Western Avenue University at Albany Albany, NY 12222 USA |
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