SYSTEM DYNAMIC GROUP MODELING
For Forrester (1961), industrial dynamics was a way of studying the behavior of industrial systems to show how policies, decisions, structure and delays are interrelated to influence growth and stability. To speak of systems “implies a structure of interacting functions. Both the separate functions and the interrelationships as defined by the structure contribute to the system behavior” (Forrester, 1967, p. 1). To describe a system, we have to describe not only the separate functions but their method of interaction (Forrester, 1968a). So, to identify the structure of a specific system, one should understand the fundamental nature of the structure common to all dynamic systems. In Industrial Dynamics, Forrester integrated the separate functional areas of management, marketing, investment, research, personnel, production and accounting (Forrester, 1968b). Each of these functions is reduced to a common basis by recognizing that any economic or corporate activity consists of flows of money, orders, materials, personnel and capital equipment. These five flows have been integrated by an information network. Industrial Dynamics “recognizes the critical importance of this information network in giving the system its own dynamic characteristics” (Forrester, 1961, p. vii).... read more
uNIVERSITY cLERMONT aUVERGNE
Department
Mathematics
MANAGER
Arnaud DIEMER
Diploma
Assistant Professor Economics
PhD «Applied Economics»
DEA « Prospect and Economic Forecasting», Option «Modeling»
University Paris Dauphine
Promotion
LICENCE MIASS
2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
SYsTEM DYNAMIC ?
System Dynamic Group Modeling (1)
Group Consumption Group Investment
Group Production Group Saving
Group Trade Group Money
NEWS
Conference of System Dynamic Society (SDS), Rejkjavik, Iceland, August 3-5th, 2018. Call for paper
System Dynamic Group Modeling (2)
Group Natural Resources Group Population
Group Food Group Energy
Group Climat Group Economic Syst
BOOKS, ARTICLES
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TOOLS FOR SYSTEM DYNAMICS
Figure from Limits to Growth (1972), Meadows....
