System Dynamics Review

Call For Papers

SDR encourages and invites authors from all systems science fields to submit papers to SDR, as emphasized in the Inaugural Editorial by Yaman Barlas (2016):

'... faced with a myriad of contemporary dynamic‐systemic problems, many different fields start adopting and developing various systems‐theoretic concepts, approaches and methods. In addition to more classical modeling/analysis methods like differential/difference equations, feedback control theory, cybernetics, compartmental modeling, simulation, soft systems and systems thinking, there are now new and emerging systemic fields such as agent‐based modeling, complexity science, machine learning and social networks...

Often times there is a tendency to equate causal loop diagrams (CLDs) and stock-flow (S‐F) modeling with the principles of system dynamics, which is obviously wrong. An even more serious error is to to equate the system dynamics method with some S‐F simulation software (Stella, Vensim, Powersim, etc.) The principles of system dynamics are conceptual and philosophical, whereas CLDs, S‐F models and software are tools. One may prefer to tackle a typical system dynamics problem with other tools such as differential/difference equations, compartmental models, control‐theoretic tools, dynamic networks, agent‐based models or discrete‐event simulation. There is also a wide and growing set of software tools other than those S‐F modelers are familiar with, and in some studies one may not use simulation software at all. All such research and application papers are more than welcome by SDR, as long as they are scientifically rigorous and deal with important dynamic problems with an endogenous perspective.'

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