REPLY Please Capitalize System Dynamics (SD6342)

[SDMAIL Monte Kietpawpan]

Posted by  Monte Kietpawpan <kietpawpan at yahoo.com>

Fields like servomechanism and cybernetics have no problem 
  with the usage of their names. There are two things in common.
   
  1. Use single term as the fields' names
  2. Be dictionary entries.
   
  System dynamics, by contrast, lacks these properties.
  Two words are used to name the field, and system dynamics has
   not yet become an entry of general dictionaries like  Webster's and Oxford.
   
  Moreover, the term 'system dynamics' means different things to 
  different researchers, even among system dynamicists. 
  Using system dynamics as a key word for finding SD papers, 
  ones would obtain many results that are not SD papers.
  To change the name of the field is a policy choice.

  Monte Kietpawpan 
Ph.D. Student, 
Faculty of Environmental Management 
Prince of Songkla University 
Songkhla, 90112, Thailand
Posted by  Monte Kietpawpan <kietpawpan at yahoo.com>
posting date  Mon, 19 Mar 2007 23:35:08 -0700 (PDT)