Threads for 2011

• Business Applications
  Applications of the system dynamics approach to matters of interest to business practitioners and academics, including corporate problems, management methods, finance, project management, and R&D/innovation. [Note that there are separate threads for Business Strategy and Operations Management.]
  

• Complexity/Agent-Based Methods
  Theory and applications of nonlinear dynamical systems, chaos, and micro-simulation.
  

• Conflict, Defense and Security
  Applications in areas relating to conflict and conflict resolution, defense, and security, including military applications, terrorism and counter-terrorism, and insurgency.
  

• Economic Dynamics
  System dynamics applications and contributions to the field of economics, including business and capital cycles, development economics, poverty, economic policy, trade, banking, and insurance dynamics.
  

• Education
  Presentations of systems thinking and system dynamics of interest to educators and education policy makers, including curricula, classroom experiences, exemplary student work, research on systems thinking or system dynamics in classrooms, and science-technology-engineering-mathematics (STEM) developments.
  

• Energy and Resources
  System dynamics of renewable and nonrenewable natural resources, fossil fuels, nuclear energy, and alternative or renewable energy sources.
  

• Environment and Ecology
  Studies and applications of system dynamics relating to agriculture, environmental problems, and strategies for sustainability, including degradation of environmental systems, pollution of land, water, and air, and climate dynamics.
  

• Health and Health Policy
  Applications of system dynamics in human biology and health, including disease dynamics, epidemiology, access to health care, health care finance, and global health issues.
  

• Information Science
  The dynamics of information systems, including information management, storage, and retrieval, and knowledge management.

• Methodology: Alternative Approaches
  The conceptualization, representation or analysis of dynamic systems using methods not currently exploited by the SD community. The methods must show that they provide novel insight into the dynamic behavior of systems studied by SD practitioners (from Joel Rahn, Nov 2010).
  

• Methodology in System Dynamics
  Contributions to methods important to system dynamics practitioners, including philosophy of science, the modeling process, model formulation and analysis, the mathematics of dynamic systems, optimization, and software.
  

• Operations Management/Supply Chains
  Dynamics of manufacturing and production operations within and between organizations.
  

• Organizational Dynamics
  Applications to group dynamics, personnel management issues, vision, leadership, and organizational change.
  

• Participatory Approaches to Modeling and Simulation
  Applications of group model building and contributions to participatory methods of model development, use, and implementation.
  

• Psychology and Social Sciences
  Theory and applications of system dynamics in psychology and the social sciences, including social and political change.
  

• Public Policy
  Applications to the public sector, including public policy, strategy and dynamics of nonprofits, government applications, and infrastructure dynamics.
  

• Qualitative System Dynamics
  Applications of, and contributions to, the use of nonquantitative systems thinking approaches in any area
  

• Strategy
  Theory and applications of system dynamics to strategic thinking and strategy support in the public or private sector

Last edited by ng 11/30/10

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