REPLY Renaming System Dynamics (SD6369)

[SDMAIL Monte Kietpawpan]

Posted by  Monte Kietpawpan <kietpawpan at yahoo.com>

I am reading the introductory book by 
  Nancy Roberts and others. They stress the importance of
  policy choices in system dynamics. So let's me apply
  the concept to this issue. 
   
  There are options to solve the searching problem.
  Renaming is a policy choice. In this reply, I think of 
  another option. We can preserve the original name (system dynamics) 
  by regarding this as a common name and adding a new term for use
  as the ID name for this field. It requires that all system dynamicists
  include the same ID name as a key word in the works they publish.
  Also, webmasters who operate system dynamics webpages must
  be encouraged to include this ID name as a meta content in the 
  HTML codes. Given this, people can search for SD papers/webpages 
  by using just the ID name together with other key words.
  The ID name needs to be as specific as possible, e.g.,
  sd502007jwf or any password the Society issues.
  This would not disturb the field name and solve the problem of
  literature search. An important thing is to make sure that
  people know the ID name and use it for searching.   
     

  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  Tue, 27 Mar 2007 19:45:37 -0700 (PDT)