International System Dynamics Conference Online Submission System
Submission deadline is March 26, 2007.   See you in Boston!

Welcome to the International System Dynamics Conference Online Submission System. Please read the following carefully before proceeding to make a submission.

INTRODUCTION
Our conference is scheduled for July 29 - August 3, 2007. The deadline for paper submissions, workshops and session proposals is March 26th. Submissions for review may be updated and edited until April 15th. Although not guaranteed, reviewers and the program committee will have the opportunity to access updated papers. Notification of acceptance will be sent on May 16th. A draft program overview by thread will be published on the web by May 16th.The tentative program with presentation times will be posted on the web on June 15th. The final paper version will be updateable and editable until August 22nd, which is the deadline for final paper versions for the Web Proceedings. There will be no CD-ROM Proceedings this year.

THE SCOPE OF THE SUBMISSION SYSTEM
Please use the online submission system for all works to be presented in lecture (parallel/plenary) or poster format and for workshop proposals. Additionally, please send convened, and other special session proposal submissions directly to the thread chairs, the list is below. To report submission problems, please send an email to isdc@albany.edu. If for some reason the online submission system does not fit your submission need, please e-mail your proposal to the Program Co-chairs at isdc07@mit.edu.

Thread Chairs:
Thread Name Email address
Business Applications Shayne Gary sgary@agsm.edu.au
Complexity/Agent-Based Models/Nonlinear Dynamics Nate Osgood nosgood@mit.edu
Economic Dynamics Michael Radzicki and Oleg Pavlov opavlov@wpi.edu
Education John Heinbokel and Jeff Potash jheinbokel@ciesd.org
Energy and Resources Erling Moxnes erling.moxnes@ifi.uib.no
Environment and Ecology Tom Fiddaman tom@vensim.com
Health Jack Homer jhomer@comcast.net
Information Science Vedat Diker vdiker@umd.edu
Methodology Alternative Approaches Joel Rahn jrahn@sympatico.ca
Methodology in SD David Exelby dave.exelby@hvr-csl.co.uk
Military Applications Bent Erik Bakken beerikba@online.no
Operations Management/Supply Chains Paulo Gonçalves and Ed Andersonpaulog@miami.edu
Organizational Dynamics Name email
Psychology/Social Dynamics Eva Jensen eva.jensen@fhs.se
Public Policy Jeff Trailer jtrailer@csuchico.edu
Qualitative System Dynamics George Richardson gpr@albany.edu
Security Jose Gonzales jose.j.gonzalez@hia.no
Strategy Scott Rockart srockart@duke.edu

THE SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
The submission procedure is straightforward. There are basically three steps:

1) Log in using your email address and password. Review existing or provide new contact information as requested.

2) Provide paper information about the work you are submitting including the title, abstract, designated presenter, and list of author(s).

3) Upload one or more of your files (.pdf file for review without author information, supporting materials and later the final version paper for the proceedings).

It is strongly advised that you prepare your files for upload BEFORE YOU BEGIN FILLING OUT THE ONLINE FORM.

INFORMATION FOR THE ONLINE FORMS
You will be asked to provide

  • your email address and password.

  • your contact information.

  • name of a designated presenter.

  • name of the contact author.

  • information on Student Award eligibility, if appropriate.

  • your choice of up to two topic threads from a list that would fit best to your work.

  • the presentation format you think would fit best to your work.


    • Next step: the file upload page. This page will show your submission ID and has a form to indicate the files you will upload.

    PREPARING THE FILES FOR UPLOAD
    For the review process, please upload one or two files for each submission.

    1) File for review.
    2) Supporting materials.

    Important:The size limit for EACH of the files you will upload is 2 (two) megabytes. The server will reject files that are bigger than 2 MB and you will not be able to upload those files. Please make sure that the size of each file is less than 2 MB.

    For the final paper version to be included in the Web Proceedings, we are asking you to upload an Adobe Acrobat file (.pdf) and the supporting materials that include all author information. Adherence to the file size of 2 (two) megabytes each is still required. Please refer to the Formatting Guidelines for Authors for the final paper version. The Web Proceedings will be available on the Society website AFTER the conference. This allows authors to incorporate review and conference suggestions into the final paper. Although the deadline for final version paper to be included on the web is August 22, 2007, we request an earlier draft be supplied by June 15, 2007 to be posted on the website for review in advance of the conference by participants and other interested parties.


    FILLING OUT THE ONLINE FORM AND UPLOADING THE FILES

    Click the button below to proceed to the online forms. There are delays, and the upload process may take several minutes. Please do not press the "submit" or "upload" buttons more than once. Use the browse buttons to navigate.

    By August 22, 2007, use this same page to submit the final version paper to be included on the Web Proceedings.

    Each time you return to the submission system and log in with your email address and password, all your submissions will be listed and accessible for editing until August 22, 2007. Uploading a revised version overwrites and replaces the existing file.

    You will receive a short automated email message confirming your paper has been uploaded. If you subsequently update your paper, a confirming message will be sent then as well. If you use the arrow to navigate back and forth within the submission system, you may receive an erroneous duplicate message regarding updating a file. Please ignore.

    What if the server rejects my submission?

    STUDENT AWARD NOMINATION PROCEDURE

    You must check the box indicated for your paper to be self-nominated, and comply with all eligibility requirements. An automated confirming email message will be sent.

    WHAT IS NEXT?

    If your work is accepted for presentation, you will be asked provide by May 23, 2007, final and detailed author information, and an abstract that will be printed in the proceedings book. By June 15, 2007 please provide the most up-to-date version of your work to be posted on the web in advance of the conference. The details about that procedure will be e-mailed to the designated presenters/contact authors in the future. By August 22, 2007 the final version paper for the Web Proceedings will be required. If a final version paper is not received, the latest uploaded (non-review) version of the paper will be included in the Web Proceedings.

    EARLY DECISION FOR VISA OR FUNDING PURPOSES

    IN CASE OF QUESTIONS AND PROBLEMS  Please contact us at isdc@albany.edu

    Thank you for your submission to ISDC 2007. See you in Boston!

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