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Here is a sample of public Insights made by Insight Maker users. This list is auto-generated and updated daily.

Here we have a basic SEIR model and we will investigate what changes would be appropriate for modelling the 2019 Coronavirus

SEIR Infectious Disease Model for COVID-19

Rolf Häsänen

697 last month

Example from book "Complex System Research in Psychology" by Han van der Maas (https://santafeinstitute.github.io/ComplexPsych/)

Romeo & Juliet

Kyra Evers

5 months ago

Based on a dialogue on the System Dynamics mailing list regarding the current level of acceptance of System Dynamics after it has been promoted for over 70 years I dredged up the following set of influences as a thought exercise. This is an example of a Drifting Goals Archetype.

@LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube

Acceptance of System Dynamics

Gene Bellinger

Causal loop diagram capturing the interactions, trade-offs, and synergies between agriculture (SDG 2), water availability (SDG 6), economic growth (SDG 8), and life on land (SDG 15). Positive feedback linkages are shown as a positive sign (+), whereas negative feedback linkages are shown with a negative sign (−). The purple arrows indicate the enviro-biophysical linkages. The green arrows indicate the socio-economic linkages. The SDG icons are courtesy of the UN SDG communications material.

Reference - Bandari, Reihaneh, et al. "Participatory Modeling for Analyzing Interactions Between High‐Priority Sustainable Development Goals to Promote Local Sustainability." Earth's Future 11.12 (2023): e2023EF003948.

The Story of Interactions of SDGs

Steve Conrad

From Jay Forrester 1988 killian lectures youtube video describing system dynamics at MIT. For Concepts See IM-185226. For more detailed biography See Jay Forrester memorial webpage For MIT HIstory see IM-184930

System Dynamics Applications

Geoff McDonnell

Este modelo explica el llenado de un vaso de agua y la relación que se tiene por el efecto de la discrepancia, también llamado nivel deseado por el observador.

Flujo, Agua, Discrepancia

Frank

2 weeks ago