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Week
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Date
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Topic
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Description
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Readings due
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Exercises due
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Project parts due
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1
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Aug 29 |
Intro | Introduction, overview & review | |||
2
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Sept 5
|
Formulation |
Welfare1, Welfare2, Welfare3 |
Sterman §11, 12, 13.1-13.2.7 |
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4
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Sept 12
|
Formulation |
Download Naill's Natural Gas model |
Continue project conceptualization | ||
5
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Sept 19
|
Formulation | Classical control theory | Feedback Thought §2 &3 |
Archetypes related to the project | Continue project conceptualization |
6
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Sept 26
|
*** No class *** | Continue project | |||
7
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Oct 3
|
Conceptualization | Morecroft, Strategy Support Models Sterman §15 |
PID controllers | Continue project formulation | |
8
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Oct 10
|
Conceptualization | Project presentations |
Randers, Guidelines for Conceptualization | Project diagrams | |
9
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Oct 17
|
Conceptualization | Group Model Building Norway Sept 2005, Recent Advances in GMB Models: See Week 2 for Noway concept models, HYDRO1 |
Continue project modeling & simulation | ||
10
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Oct 24
|
Conceptualization & Formulation |
Sterman §14, 16 |
Continue project modeling & simulation | ||
11
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Oct 31
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Validation | Sterman §21 | Progress reports | ||
12
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Nov 7
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Validation | Fitting to data; Optimization; Thiel statistics |
Sterman §21.4.7 | Analytic initialization | Continue project |
13 |
Nov 14 |
Projects | Model evaluation: What is good (or bad) work? | Article to review for class | Model analysis report and model | |
14
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Nov 21
|
*** No class *** | Continue project Begin wrap up |
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15 |
Nov 28 |
Validation |
(Sterman §21) |
Continue project wrap up |
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16 |
Dec 5 |
Validation | Final presentations | PowerPoint presentation and model | ||
Dec 7 |
Projects | Written project due | Project report | |||
17 | Dec 11 |
Dinner at the Richardson's | Celebrating our successes w 624 and others | |||
Readings: On Reserve | Readings: Soon to be linked to this syllabus |
Forrester, Industrial Dynamics [Reserve] | Morecroft, J. D. W. 1988. System Dynamics and Microworlds for Policymakers. |
ISDM: Intro to System Dynamics Modeling with DYNAMO [Reserve] | |
Richardson, Feedback Thought in Social Science and Systems Theory [Reserve] |