REPLY Renaming System Dynamics (SD6362)

[SDMAIL Ines Winz]

Posted by  "Ines Winz" <i.winz at auckland.ac.nz>

With regards to the 118,000,000 hits in google on system dynamics; most of
these will probably not refer to the methodology of system dynamics but
rather a general description of behaviour (the dynamics in the system).
Hence, this discussion. 

Searching literature databases for SD work in any field can be quite
challenging. Search Current Contents (1998-2007) and you get 1,892 results
for "system dynamics" in 93 disciplines: 241 hits in management, 224 in AI,
robotics & automatic control, 218 in mechanical engineering, 150 in physics,
124 in environment/ecology and so forth. Most of these results have nothing
to do with SD modelling. In fact, a refined search for "SD model*" results
in only 182 records (roughly 10%) in 36 disciplines but there is no way of
knowing that you got them all. This is certainly an important drawback of
the current name, albeit one that we have managed to live with well over the
past years.

Regards, Ines.
Posted by  "Ines Winz" <i.winz at auckland.ac.nz>
posting date  Mon, 26 Mar 2007 10:48:15 +1200