Small System Dynamics Models for BIG Issues:
Triple Jump towards Real-World Dynamic Complexity

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Exercises and Cases --- PART I: WARM-UP

2.1 Competition in the Faculty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50: model, demo video
2.2 Asset and Customer Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51: model, demo video
2.3 Resource Dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51: model, demo video
2.4 Prescriptive Approach to Health & Social Work . . . . . . . . . .52: model,
2.5 Setting Up COLs and MOOCs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53: model, demo video
2.6 Fish and Ships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54: model,
2.7 Housing Policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55: model,
2.8 Student Passing Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55: model,
2.9 Fighting High Impact Crime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56: model,
2.10 Conflict in the Middle East . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56: model,
2.11 Mapping Bank Runs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58: model,
2.12 Entrepreneurs & Transitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .60: model,
2.13 Soft Drugs Policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61: model, feedback pdf
2.14 Climate Change (Qualitative) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63: model,

Exercises and Cases --- PART II: RUN-UP

6.1 Cocaine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91: model, demo video
6.2 Muskrat Plague . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .92: model, demo video
6.3 Economic Overshoot and Collapse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .92: model,
6.4 (Mis)Management of Societal Aging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .93: model,
6.5 The Threat of the Feral Pig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94: model,
6.6 Gangs and Arms Races . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .95: model,
6.7 Unintended Family Planning Benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .96: model,
6.8 Pneumonic Plague (A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97: model,
6.9 System Dynamics Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98: model, demo video
6.10 Diffusion of micro-CHP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .99: model,
6.11 Housing Stock Dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100: model, feedback pdf

 

Exercises and Cases --- PART III: HOP

10.1 Step, Ramp, Time, Sin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..124: model, intro video
10.2 Min, Max, MinMax, MaxMin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..125: model, intro video
10.3 Stocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .125: model, intro video
10.4 First Order Material & Information Delays . . . . . . . . . . . 126: model
10.5 Higher Order Delays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .127: model
10.6 Lookups, With Lookups, Time Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128: model, intro video
10.7 SoftMin & SoftMax versus Min & Max . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .128: model, intro video
10.8 Pulse and Pulse Train . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .129: model, intro video
10.9 Randomizers and Randomly Sampled Parameters . . . . 130: model, intro video
10.10 Special Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .131: model, intro video
10.11 Damped mass-spring system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132: model, demo video
10.12 Un/Conventional Gas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .133: model, demo video
10.13 Mass Starvation in the OVP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133: model, demo video
10.14 Verification and Debugging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135: model, intro video
10.15 Sensitivity, Uncertainty, Scenarios & Robustness I . . . 135: model, intro video, demo video
10.16 Sensitivity, Uncertainty, Scenarios & Robustness II . . .136: model, demo video

 

Exercises and Cases --- PART IV: STEP

14.1 Managing a Faculty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
14.2 Supply Chain Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .158
14.3 Debt Crisis in a Developing Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
14.4 Environmental Management in Miniworld . . . . . . . . . . . .160
14.5 The 2009-2010 Flu Pandemic / Next Pandemic Shock .162
14.6 Long Term Planning of New Towns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .165
14.7 Tolerance, Hate & Aggression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
14.8 Electrical Vehicle Transition & Lithium Scarcity . . . . . . . 169
14.9 Cholera Epidemic in Zimbabwe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
14.10 Signalled Run on a Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .173
14.11 Fighting HIC on the National Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
14.12 Overfishing of Bluefin Tuna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .178
14.13 Production Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
14.14 Redevelopment of Social Housing Districts . . . . . . . . . 182
14.15 Mineral/Metal Scarcity I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
14.16 Radicalization & Deradicalization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
14.17 Fundamental Behaviors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
14.18 Additional Exercises in Online Repository . . . . . . . . . .189

 

Exercises and Cases --- PART V: JUMP

18.1 Policy Analysis, Design, Testing, and Advice . . . . . . . . 212
18.2 Unemployment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
18.3 Hospital Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .214
18.4 Deer Population on the Kaibab Plateau . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
18.5 Prostitution and Human Trafficking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .218
18.6 Seasonal Flu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221, Level 1 description
18.7 Real Estate Boom and Bust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
18.8 DNO Asset Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
18.9 Fighting HIC on the Regional Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
18.10 Innovation in Health Care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .230
18.11 Carbon and Climate Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
18.12 Managing An Orchestrated Bank Run . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
18.13 Activism, Extremism and Terrorism . . . . . . . . . . . . . .234
18.14 Project Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
18.15 Mineral/Metal Scarcity II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
18.16 Energy Transition Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .241
18.17 Fighting HIC across Multiple Districts . . . . . . . . . . . . 243, Level 1 description
18.18 Antibiotic Resistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .246
18.19 Globalization & Liberalization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
18.20 Higher Education Stimuli . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
18.21 Financial Turmoil on the Housing Market . . . . . . . . .253
18.22 Collapse of Civilizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256