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System
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ANZSYS Conference |
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Asia-Pacific Multi-Conference |
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Policy Council |
Fordham University Pre-Conference Workshop |
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Chapter Representatives |
Latin-American Conference Announcement |
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Special Interest Group Representatives |
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Venue, Program, Deadlines and Contacts |
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PhD Colloquium |
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Social Program |
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CONSIDEO Freeware Available |
Workshops |
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Diversity Committee Happenings |
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Initiative for System Dynamics in the Public
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SYDIC Website Redesigned |
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PhD’s Awarded |
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From the President, Graham W. Winch
Dear Members:
As we move into June, the thoughts of many of us in the Northern hemisphere move towards summer pursuits – for some baseball or another Australia vs. England ‘Ashes’ cricket series (no comments about either the Boston Red Sox or the Aussies!), but for everyone the annual System Dynamics Conference in July must be a major highlight in their diaries. Every indication is that the 2005 conference in Boston will again be a record breaker. There has been a deluge of paper submissions and the head office and programme team have been doing a fantastic job keeping the schedule on track.
The expected high number of paper acceptances does present a serious challenge, as we try to keep the number of sessions in parallel at any time as low as possible to avoid presenting participants with too many conflicting choices. The System Dynamics Conference traditionally places major emphasis on poster sessions, either for papers the thread chairs judge would be more suited to an informal presentation/discussion mode or to meet a number of authors’ personal preferences. Our conference, unlike many others, fully integrates poster sessions into the programme, with the poster presentations grouped into thread-based clusters in dedicated slots with no competing scheduled activities.
This year’s conference will introduce an innovative new session format. The research session is a modified parallel session format in which a moderator will be responsible for collating presentation materials and integrating the work of a number of different researchers into a coherent framework. The moderator will introduce the session with a summary of the theme and of each paper, and will link the papers to prior work and related research. Authors will then speak briefly on their own research, highlighting the issue, approach, and findings to date. The purpose of research sessions is to provide a forum for dialogue among authors working on similar themes. We hope the dialogue will promote learning for all, including the audience, participants, and moderator.
Congratulations to all authors with papers accepted for the programme; we look forward to hearing and discussing your work.
A new membership scheme will be announced and launched at the conference this year. Following the generous offer of the System Dynamics Review’s publisher, John Wiley & Sons, to provide a limited number of free copies of the journal, the Society has decided to waive the equivalent professional fee elements to enable us to offer new complimentary full Society memberships. These will be used to support the spread and development of the field, and the Society, in under-represented areas. A small group chaired by Bob Cavana, of Victoria University in New Zealand, was charged with developing the original proposal, which was approved at the Winter Policy Council Meeting, and designing an application process and then evaluating the applications.
The criteria and process are still being finalised, but it is intended that the application be as simple as possible and the award of complimentary memberships as inclusive as possible. Two situations are envisaged: new members can be supported where chapters are developing or proposed, to assure the necessary critical mass; and young academics in developing economies can be supported while moving to a first appointment in an organisation where system dynamics is not currently featured and no local members are present. All complimentary memberships will be for a limited period and will be offered where there is a high probability that the recipients will be able and motivated to move quickly to normal membership in their own right.
Any comments or general suggestions concerning the complimentary membership scheme (but not nominations at this stage please!) can be directed to Bob or myself at bob.cavana@vuw.ac.nz or graham.winch@plymouth.ac.uk. This is an exciting initiative and we hope the first recipients will be benefiting in 2006.
I look forward to seeing you in Boston for the big event of our year.
Graham
From the Executive Director, Roberta L. Spencer
Dear Members,
For the past two years, the Society office has been lucky enough to have an undergraduate work-study student available to help us. Among other tasks, our student, Shaquala Williams, captured all the first author names in the System Dynamics Bibliography along with their bibliography entries. This seemed like a never-ending job! Then she searched in our database for corresponding e-mail addresses. In 2004, we contacted the first half of the alphabet. The project was halted over the summer break. In March of this year, we completed the second half of the alphabet. All first authors we could locate with an e-mail address were contacted and asked to “clean up” their entries.
For each author sent a message, there were four never contacted because we do not have an e-mail address on file. A general message was sent to the System Dynamics Listserve to try to reach more authors. To conclude this cleanup project, I would like to ask any author or co-author who was not contacted and did not see the message on the listserve to please take a few moments to check your bibliography entries. The goal is to improve the accuracy and usefulness of the System Dynamics Bibliography; updating the quality will benefit all of its authors and users.
The Bibliography can be found on the Society website, http://www.systemdynamics.org/biblio/sdbib2.html. Please send corrections and additions by e-mail to the Society office at system.dynamics@albany.edu.
Please review and edit with the following in mind:
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Check to make
sure each entry includes your full name as you prefer it to appear (not
nickname), year, title, journal or book title, volume and number, paging,
publisher, place of publication, and ISSN or ISBN. There should be no
abbreviations except vol. or no. Please refer to the Chicago Manual of Style at
http://www.lib.ohio-state.edu/guides/chicagogd.html
if you need more specific direction.
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Your addition of
keywords and abstracts not under copyright is especially encouraged. Keywords
are important, because they are used not only to find research references but
also to locate potential collaborators who are doing work in a particular area.
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Please delete
entries that have been superseded, i.e. working papers when there is now a
published version.
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The preferred
language is English, but all titles will be included if they deal specifically
with the fields of system dynamics and systems thinking. Transliterations of
titles not in English would be appreciated. If there are accented letters and
special characters, please include. Acceptable file formats for attachments
include Endnote, Excel, Word, or plain text.
Our bibliographer, Jennifer Ferris, routinely adds entries from the System Dynamics Review and our conferences. (The Bibliography includes works in conference proceedings from our own conferences only.) The policy for additions to the Bibliography can be found on the Bibliography page of the Society website. Please continue to send any new works to the Society office for inclusion. If you happen to note an entry by another author that seems incorrect, and you know how to contact him or her, please spread the word. If all your entries are correct, there’s no need to contact the office.
Thanks to the hundreds of authors who have responded already – it’s made a difference! If you have something to correct or add to the Bibliography, we will be very pleased to hear from you.
Roberta
P.S. Congratulations to Shaquala, who graduated this May and will start law school in September. We will miss her!
2005 Governance
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Graham W. Winch |
Michael J. Radzicki |
Robert L. Eberlein |
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Jay W. Forrester |
David W.Packer |
David F. Andersen |
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Deborah Lines Andersen |
Ginny Wiley |
Robert Y. Cavana |
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James M. Lyneis |
Brian C. Dangerfield |
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Policy Council
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Deborah Campbell |
Allen L. Boorstein |
Henk A. Akkermans |
Chapter Representatives*
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Rohita Singh |
Pierre J. Ehrlich |
Qifan Wang |
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Oleg Pavlov |
Walid Badr |
Emmanuel D. Adamides |
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Habib Sedehi |
Michiya Morita |
Namsung Ahn |
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Isaac Dyner |
Birgitte Snabe |
Birgit Kopainsky
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Brian C. Dangerfield |
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Special Interest Group Representatives
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Jean Ellefson |
Carol Frances and Michael Kennedy |
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Anastássios Perdicoúlis |
Jack Homer and Geoff McDonnell |
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Jose Gonzalez and Klaus Breuer |
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*Chapter proposals have been received from Russia and Pakistan; we expect to list contact information in the next newsletter.
Request for News
Our plan to publish four issues of the System Dynamics Newsletter every year, continues with this, the second issue of this year. Please send us your letters, news, photographs, and ideas to be included in one of the newsletters! Additionally, if you would like to contribute an article of interest to our community, please send your suggestion to the Society office.
All past newsletters, back to 1988, are available on the Society website under “Publications.” The recently added “Society Status Report of 1983-84” (and the conference keynote address of 1983) by Jay W. Forrester, capture some of our history.
Call for Photos (and other bits of history)
The 2007 conference will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the field. We are looking for historical event photos, documents of historic significance, any kind of artifact of interest to display at the 2007 conference.
Where you at the bullfight in Seville? Did you play soccer in 1981 in Rensselaerville? Do you have any photos, documents, or articles, or stories of notable events, conference or otherwise? There have been many remarkable occasions during the past fifty years, some momentous and some amusing. We are hoping that folks who have these bits of history will share them. If you have an item that could be copied and displayed at the 2007 conference, please send it to the Society office. Items may be in electronic form or hard copy. Credit will be given to contributors. This should be interesting and fun. Start looking through your old stuff! Thanks, Roberta
Dana Meadows
Award Endowment Fund Nears Goal
The endowment fund is within $2,000 of the $60,000 goal! We expect to be able to announce that we have reached our goal during the award presentation at the Boston conference. To date sixty-four individuals have contributed. Additionally we have had two organizations donate: the UK-based Operational Research Society and the Sustainability Institute. Special thanks to Allen and Jane Boorstein who generously helped establish the award in 2001.
To learn more about the award, find out how to
contribute, and see the list of donors, please visit the website: http://www.systemdynamics.org/Awards/DMA/DMSAEFD.htm
A list of Previous
Winners can be found on the Society Awards page
of the Society website.
Member News and Notes
Appointments and Awards
As of January 1, 2005, Henk Akkermans has been appointed Professor for the Stork Aerospace Chair in Aerospace supply network dynamics. This chair is sponsored by the Dutch Aerospace Cluster and the Ministry of Economic Affairs.
Henk Akkermans’ main interest is in designing effective policies to manage the dynamics of supply chains and networks in the high-tech industries of aerospace, electronics, and telecom.
Akkermans studied information management in Tilburg and Japanese in Leiden. He defended his PhD thesis entitled “Modelling with Managers” at Eindhoven Technical University in 1995. From 1991, he has combined an academic position as assistant professor at TU Eindhoven with a business consultant role at BSO/Origin and at McKinsey. From 2000 onwards, he has conducted his consulting work from his own firm, Minase, where he continues to work.
At Tilburg University, Henk Akkermans teaches a course on Systems Thinking and Modelling. His research focuses on highly decentralized inter-organisational supply chains and networks. He develops system dynamics and agent-based models of real-world settings. His special interest is in the evolution of inter-organisational relationships and the interrelations between collaboration and performance.
David C. Lane was recently given an award for system dynamics teaching by the London School of Economics. The relevant criteria for the award was “evidence of ‘outstanding performance’… over a period of two years or more in ... teaching quality and innovation or higher-than average commitment with sustained quality of delivery.” Much student feedback data concerning the last ten years of system dynamics teaching - to both MSc. OR/Decision Sciences students and MSc Management students - was examined. David is of course pleased with this award and has added that he is “very much aware that having a great subject to teach helps a whole lot.”
Congratulations Henk and David!
CONSIDEO Freeware Available
CONSIDEO is proud to announce CONSIDEO COMMUNITY EDITION, the first product in a line of System Thinking Tools. It is a qualitative analysis tool that supports you to analyze and solve complex problems in a systematic and workflow-oriented way. By using CONSIDEO COMMUNITY EDITION, you will gain understanding of the problem structure and get support to find the most efficient leverage for solving your problem. Furthermore, CONSIDEO COMMUNITY EDITION helps you to communicate your model to somebody else effectively by providing a user-friendly and transparent cause and effect structure.
CONSIDEO COMMUNITY EDITION can be used intuitively. It also offers guidance on how to apply the system dynamics method. This allows you to keep your mind on the problem and its solution.
The freeware-version “CONSIDEO COMMUNITY EDITION” is available at our website: www.consideo.de
We would be glad to get your feedback. Thank you, Franc Grimm, CONSIDEO, Seelandstrasse, 23569 Lübeck, Tel: +49-451-3909-100, Fax: +49-451-3909-499, e-mail: info@consideo.de
Diversity Committee Happenings
Deborah Campbell and Peter Hovmand
While Society membership has grown by over 40% from 1999, the representation of women has remained flat at 12%. Thus, in July 2004 the Policy Council unanimously approved the formation of a committee to work on tracking and improving the diversity of the System Dynamics Society.
One of our first initiatives was to pilot a diversity survey, which was included in the annual renewals starting last October. Over 350 surveys have been returned, which represents approximately 38% of the Society membership. The initial results are interesting and point to a continuing problem of women comprising only 13% of the System Dynamics Society.
As we developed the survey, a number of people raised important issues about how diversity would be defined for the System Dynamics Society. While gender was one of the primary motivations for the formation of the committee, members suggested that other dimensions of diversity might also be important to consider. Thus as the work of the Diversity Committee enters its second year, we would like to open up the dialogue with members about how diversity impacts participation in the Society and begin developing potential solutions.
Toward that end, we are planning a roundtable discussion for any interested attendee at the upcoming conference in Boston. The home office has also established a listserv for the Diversity Committee, which members are encouraged to join. This will provide another venue for folks to discuss topics of diversity and the committee’s work. Members interested in participating can sign up by sending an e-mail containing “subscribe DIVERSITY Firstname Lastname” to listserv@listserv.albany.edu.
We anticipate a major revision of the survey based on members’ feedback from the roundtable and listserv discussions. Our goal is to move to an online survey. This will make it much easier to complete the survey, and improve the quality of the information we have to monitor our efforts to diversify the Society.
Finally, we are looking to add a few more members to the committee to improve our representation of the Society, and will have a committee meeting in Boston. If you are interested, please contact Deborah Campbell (deborah-campbell@comcast.net) or Peter Hovmand (phovmand@wustl.edu). So look for the Diversity Roundtable and Diversity Committee Meeting on the conference schedule, and see you in Boston!
The Initiative for System Dynamics in the Public Sector
The Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy at the University at Albany is home to the Initiative for System Dynamics in the Public Sector. David Andersen, George Richardson and Rod MacDonald first formed the Initiative in 2001 for the purpose of providing training and modeling services to government agencies in New York State, and to create modeling opportunities for PhD students in the System Dynamics Group at Rockefeller College.
Over the past year the Initiative has been under contract with the Division of Disability Determinations of the Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance, the Governor’s Traffic Safety Committee, and the Home Health Care Association of New York State to develop formal models to address a variety of public policy issues.
On the training side, the Initiative has provided training in systems thinking and system dynamics to the New York State Education Department, the New York State Office of the State Comptroller, and to Regional School Support Centers across the state.
Hyunjung Kim, a first-year PhD student, has been working with the Initiative in the development of training courses in systems thinking and on group model building projects in the education sector. Sasha Lubyansky, a second-year PhD student, was the lead modeler for the Initiative on a project to examine surge capacity issues for the Home Health Care Association of New York State.
Many of this year’s projects are expected to continue into the next fiscal year, and to provide the basis for follow-on modeling and training projects. In addition, the Initiative anticipates undertaking a new project with the National Institute of Justice to examine the influence of technological improvements on people and resources in the criminal justice system.
SYstem Dynamics Italian Chapter (SYDIC) Website Redesigned
Stefano Armenia, from “Tor Vergata” Rome University is re-designing the Italian Chapter website. In this way we are trying to give (after a long time! ) a possible good and new “lymph” to our Chapter. The new website will be dynamic and distributed. This will allow different organizations associated with SYDIC around in Italy to interact autonomously with the website allowing each one to update their reserved area and hence publishing on-line their system dynamics activities. The first version of the new SYDIC (SYstem Dynamics Italian Chapter) website is now complete. This project will be developed by students of Habib Sedehi’s department (Rome “La Sapienza” University - Comunication Science Faculty) in conjunction with Stefano Armenia and his colleagues of “Tor Vergata” University - Engineering Faculty. Take a look! http://www.unipa.it/~bianchi/ita/sydic.htm
PhD’s Awarded
It is our pleasure to announce that many of the Society’s student members have recently received their PhD’s.
On March 11, 2005, Hördur V. Haraldsson defended his PhD dissertation “Developing Methods for Modelling Procedures in System Analysis and System Dynamics” opposing Prof. Robert Y. Cavana, Victoria School of Management, New Zealand. The evaluation committee consisted of Prof. Jose Gonzales, Faculty of Engineering and Science, Agder University College, Norway, Prof. Per Hagander, Dept. of Automatic Controll, Lund University, and Prof. Bengt Nihlgard, Plant Ecology and Systematics, Lund University. The thesis is published at Lund University and is available by request from the author, hordur.haraldsson@chemeng.lth.se
Agata Sawicka’s PhD dissertation, approved at the University of Bergen, Norway, 2004, is titled “A comparison of heuristics and biases in judgment under uncertainty and misperceptions of dynamics in feedback systems.” Agata did her PhD research at the cell “Security and Quality in Organizations,” Agder University College. Her supervisors were professors Jose J. Gonzalez and Pål I Davidsen. After her PhD dissertation, Agata got a postdoctoral fellowship from the Norwegian Research Council. Her research focuses on “Disseminating Insights from Complex Models to a Broader Audience: Case of System Dynamics Models.” Agata is a member of the research cell “Security and Quality in Organizations,” Agder University College, which is lead by professor Jose J. Gonzalez.
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Ignacio J. Martinez-Moyano received his PhD this May from the University at Albany. His dissertation, titled “Rule Dynamics: Toward a Theory of Rule Change in Organizations,” was supervised by Dr. George P. Richardson and Dr. Rogelio Oliva and was recognized with the Excellence in Doctoral Research Award by the faculty of the Rockefeller College. Ignacio is joining the Decision and Risk Analysis Group at Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago, Illinois where he will continue his research on the behavioral aspects of insider cyber-threat risks. |
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A hearty “congratulations” to all! |
Publications
Diana Fisher, Modeling
Dynamic Systems: Lessons for a First Course, isee systems, (Lebanon, NH):
2004. http://www.iseesystems.com/store/modelingbook/default.aspx
Usman A. Ghani,
Dynamic Governance: New Practices and Theory for Excellence at the Summit of
Business, PFS, 2005. usman@DynamicGovernance.com
Finn Jackson, The Escher Cycle: Creating Self-Reinforcing Business Advantage, Thomson Corporation, (Mason OH): 2004. http://www.theeschercycle.com/
Member Event Announcements
ANZSYS Conference Announcement
11th Annual ANZSYS Conference / Managing the Complex V
Christchurch, New Zealand ---5-7 December 2005
Conference theme “Systems Thinking and Complexity Science: Insights for Action”
Following the success of the previous ANZSYS conferences and “Managing the Complex” events, it is a pleasure to announce the 11th Annual ANZSYS / Managing the Complex V Conference. The conference will be held in the city of Christchurch in New Zealand from 5-7 December 2005, and will be co-hosted by the Institute of Environmental Science and Research Limited (ESR), New Zealand, and the Institute for the Study of Coherence and Emergence (ISCE), USA. A lively forum for discussion and debate will be provided for a wide range of academics and practitioners in the fields of systems thinking, complexity science and management. People from other disciplines who have an interest in the application of systems thinking and complexity approaches will also be invited to participate.
We are bringing together thinkers and practitioners in the fields of systems thinking and complexity science as it seems to us that there has been a significant international resurgence in these areas in recent years. It would appear that this has been driven by at least four simultaneous forces:
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people right
across the public, private and voluntary sectors looking for new ways to manage
or deal with increasingly complex and multi-faceted problems;
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the obviously
systemic character of many high-profile issues that transcend national
boundaries, from global warming to international violence;
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popularization of a number of systems approaches in the mid-1990s, especially
among managers and policy makers;
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simultaneous popularization of complexity science, sparking major interest in
new approaches to managing uncertainty.
The fields of systems thinking and complexity science have many similarities, yet they are being developed by two overlapping research communities that have unique insights to bring to bear on the management of ‘wicked’ problems. We believe that, by providing forums at this conference in which people working at the frontiers of complexity and systems thinking can learn from one another, significant new insights for action can emerge. Paper(s) can focus on theory, practice or a combination of the two. This conference will provide a great opportunity to meet others with similar interests and to communicate with a wider audience, so we really want to encourage you to participate. Papers (up to 10 pages of A4, double-line spaced) must be submitted by 1st July 2005 and will be double-blind refereed. Papers can be e-mailed to anzsys2005@isce.edu
For full details please visit the conference website at:
http://isce.edu/ISCE_Group_Site/web-content/ISCE%20Events/Christchurch_2005.html
Report on the Sustainable Development of Asia Pacific--Multi-Conference on the Applications of System Dynamics and the Disciplines of Management
Ms. Ying Qian, PhD candidate and Prof. Xu Li
The Sustainable Development of Asia Pacific--Multi-Conference on the Applications of System Dynamics and the Disciplines of Management will be held from Nov 4th to 6th, 2005, at Tongji University, Shanghai, China. Conference paper submission has already started. A wide range of topics will be covered and discussed at the conference, including recycling economy, regional and national economic dynamics, public management and policy, financial system dynamics, M&A and industrial dynamics, business dynamics, logistics and supply chain management, R&D project management, health care policy reform, simulation for decision making, system dynamics for R&D and Innovation, system dynamics and systems thinking, complex nonlinear dynamics etc. Papers may be submitted until July 22nd. Looking forward to your works.
On May 7th, 2005, the conference Chair, Professor Qifan
Wang, hosted a meeting with the members of the Organizing Committee to handle
some crucial preparation issues such as formalizing the process for paper
review, future publishing of the conference papers, scheduling the agenda of
the conference. The preparation for the conference is going fine.
Program topics planned:
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Opening Ceremony:
Professor Wu Qidi, the Vice Minister of
Ministry of Education of China, is invited to deliver a keynote speech.
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Recycling Economy Forum: We plan
to invite Professor Qian Yi, and Guo Chongqing, to come give presentation. Both
of them are members of Chinese Academy of Sciences/Engineer. Professor Zhu
Dajian will deliver a report with the topic “Recycling Economy in China.” He
has given a lecture on this topic to the leaders of UN environment department.
During his visit in the US, he also lectured on this topic at Harvard
University and Texas A&M University. And he will give a lecture on this topic at
Yale in July.
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Special Issues of China Forum: This forum will be focused on economic topics specially related to
China.
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Graduate Student
Forum: In this forum, people will
discuss how to apply system dynamics together with other principles and
approaches to conduct further PhD study. We invite PhD students and master
students to share their dissertation topics, research insights and experiences.
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System Dynamics
Theory Study Forum: One example for
this forum is the study “Basic In-Tree model of System Rate” from Professor Jia
Ren’an, director of Nanchang System Dynamics Research Institute. Using this
method, the model building process will be more standardized.
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Forum of the
Development of Management Science and Systems Science.
We warmly welcome your participation.
Fordham University Graduate School of Business 2nd System Dynamics Workshop
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Fordham University Graduate School of Business cordially invites you and a guest to attend the 2nd System Dynamics Pre-Conference Workshop.* Thursday, July 14, 2005, 9 AM – 5 PM, McMahon Hall Fordham University Business Schools Registration: US$40 per person (on or before July 7,
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* Participants attending this event qualify for a 10
percent discount off the registration fee for the 23rd International Conference
of the System Dynamics Society in Boston later this summer.
Theme: Pathways to superior performance
This one-day workshop will acquaint you with system dynamics, the bedrock for systems thinking. Dr Nicholas C. Georgantzas and other accomplished members of the System Dynamics Society will present ideas, software tools and applications of system dynamics.
Most of us live and work in and about business ecosystems with complex dynamic behaviors. And poor performance often results from our very own past actions or decisions, which come back to haunt us.
Unlike other social sciences, system dynamics shows exactly how circular cause and effect chains interact within a system to affect performance through time. You too can now leverage this insight to achieve vast, self-sustaining performance improvements.
With today’s business world in perpetual motion, performance-related problems derive from systems, processes and methods, not from individual workers. People do their best, but their best efforts cannot overcome the poor performance of dysfunctional systems.
Is your company trying to squeeze the heroic efforts of outstanding people to improve performance? Stop! Learn to create systems that routinely permit excellent performance to result from the ordinary efforts of ordinary people. Change your system now to change what your people do and how they perform. Changing your people will change neither your system nor its performance.
Know how to lead from the clarity that only comes from understanding systems. Do not abdicate your leadership before you know how.
Mark your calendar!
Third Latino American and Colombian Conference of the Latin American Chapter of the System Dynamics Society
Objective: To extend system dynamics methodologies and applications that contribute to the solution of problems in industry and government, specially, related to planning, policy, markets, the environment, technology and education.
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The Albany-MIT System Dynamics PhD Colloquium
The System Dynamics Groups from the Sloan School of MIT and the Rockefeller College of the University at Albany have been meeting two times a year. The meetings take place in Albany during the fall semester and in Cambridge during the spring semester. The groups have been meeting since 2000 to share their research projects and improve their knowledge on how to conduct system-dynamics related research. This tradition stands as an important bridge to connect the two universities, establishing a research network and academic partnership that will last for years to come.
In recent years, the event has expanded to include attendees and participants from other universities and organizations in the U.S and beyond, including Cornell University, Dowling College, Harvard Business School, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Stuttgart University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Attune Group, Amber Blocks Ltd, PA Consulting, and the Sustainability Institute.
If you would like to learn more about the colloquium and the participants who have shared their work online, please visit any one of the previous ten events. The “Albany-MIT Colloquia” links can be found at the following website: http://www.systemdynamics.org/society_activities.htm
2005 Boston USA Conference Update
The 23rd International Conference of the System Dynamics Society will be held July 17-21, 2005
Conference Host: System Dynamics Group, MIT Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, Massachusetts
USA