2003 Spring JSD Chapter Report

1. Members

Members: 119persons

2. Activities
We conducted 6 monthly meetings, one seminar and one forum during that period.
(1) Monthly Meetings

Tuesday, October 8th, 2002 at Chuo University, Tokyo

- Report of ISDC, Palermo, Italy, by Mr. Suetake, Professor Kameyama and Dr. Ohga
　

Saturday, November 9th, 2002 at Chuo University, Tokyo

We had three presentations and discussions in this meeting.

- Improving causal mapping practice using the System Dynamics as ‘Front-End’ tool, by Mr. Uehara

- Systems thinking and systems archetypes, by Mr. Ito

- Model tools of the Systems Thinking, by Dr. Matsumoto

Saturday, January 11th, 2003 at Kansai University, Osaka

We had three presentations and discussions in this meeting.

-From formulation of business strategy to modeling with systems thinking and system

dynamics, by Professor Yamaguchi

- Japan national pension fund model and effectiveness of the SD model, by Mr. Saito and Professor Yamauchi

- Dynamics on project management, by Professor Koshijima

Wednesday, February 12th, 2003 at Chuo University, Tokyo

We had two presentations and discussions focus on population problem.

- Population increasing model and chaos with Verhulst model, by Dr. Matsumoto

- Population forecast of Japan in 21st Century and population model,

Saturday, May 17th, 2003 at Chuo University, Tokyo

We had three presentations focus on the papers on the System Dynamics Journal, volume 3.

- Studies of Glocal (Global & Local) Model - An Interim Report of a Grant-in-Aid Scientific Research

[KAKEN] of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in Japan by Professor

Ikeda

- Basic analysis of population & recourse models" by Professor Takeuchi

- Social security pension model & metropolitan model" by Professor Shimada

Saturday, July 12, 2003 at Chuo University, Tokyo

We had two presentations and discussion focus on macro-micro linkage and economic model.

-Micro-macro linkage in SD modeling, by Mr. Suetake

- System dynamics and macro economics, by Professor Kobayashi

(2) Seminar

We conducted seminar for presenting the works by our Business Process Dynamics Study Group at Wednesday, March 19th, 2003 at Chuo University, Tokyo

- Key note speech: Meaning of Business Process Study, by Professor Morita

- Complex Eco-economy System by Dr. Bartoszczuk and Dr. Nakamori

- Exchange risk management and SD, by Mr. Iwasawa & Mr. Sasaki

- Relation between feed forward and feed back, by Mr. Uchiyama

- Model based management, by Dr. Matsumoto

- Study of re-use and recycle using SD by Mr. Enomoto

- Modeling of impact by qualitative factor to corporation, by Mr. Kondo

- How to applied systems thinking model, by Mr. Ito

- Business risks management, by Mr. Suetake

- Non-black-boxiation in decision making, by Mr. Miyamoto

(3) Forum

　

The Third Management Forum For the New Century: Collaboration of Government, Citizen and Company

toward a Circulative Society

We conducted this forum at Wednesday, January 15, 2003 at Chuo University, Tokyo

- Key Note Speech: System Dynamics as a Tool of Collaboration, by Professor Kobayashi

- Risk in a Cooperative-Based Recycling Systems, by Professor Y. Matsumoto

- An Important Role of a Dynamic Policy Analysis for Government, by Mr. Kanzaki

- New Activities of a Japanese Company toward a Circulative Society, by Mr. Wakimoto

- Discussion: Collaboration of Government, Citizen and Company toward a Circulative Society

3. Journal
Third volume of the Japanese Journal of System Dynamics was issued in last May and plan to published volume four in next March.
　

4. New Books

“Dynamic Perspectives for General Policy Studies: Excel System Dynamics”, by KOBAYASHI, Hidenori

was published in 2002.

5. Others

We have 5 study groups from April, 2003.

- Model Validation Study Group: focus for validate old models built by Professor Shimada during ‘70s

- ST/SD Educational Database Project: focus for developing the educational material database of ST/SD as

well as development of materials and sample SD models for SD/ST education in school and university class

- Business Process Dynamics Study Group: focus for study of business process dynamics and business process

modeling

- Environment Study Project : focus for study environment issues using SD models

- Decision Making Study Group: focus on study about dynamics of decision making