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Books and Tutorials
 | Juan Margin Garcia has published the book Theory and
Practical Exercises of System Dynamics that introduces system dynamics and
provides a number of detailed examples with in Vensim for the construction of
models. The book is also available in Spanish. For more details see
http://www.upcnet.es/~jmg2/dynamics.htm. |
| Peter Bützer and Markus Roth have published the book
Systemdynamik in Chemie and Biochemie in German that present a variety of
models in Chemistry and Biochemistry. For more details on the book and work in
general see
http://www.buetzer.info/b-learning/beispiele-aufgaben-uebungen.html. |
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Craig W. Kirkwood at Arizona State University maintains a System
Dynamics Resource page with a short tutorial for Vensim PLE (Now updated to
Version 5). |
System Dynamics Resources
System Dynamics Bibliography
| An excellent newer text on system dynamics theory and modeling practice is Business
Dynamics by John D. Sterman, McGraw-Hill, 2000. |
| An older but still useful text is
Introduction
to System Dynamics Modeling with DYNAMO, by G.P. Richardson and
A.L. Pugh (The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1981). |
| System Dynamics is a field that resulted from the pioneering efforts of Jay W. Forrester to apply the engineering principles of feedback and control to social systems. One of the earliest, and still one of the best references in this field is
Industrial Dynamics by Jay W. Forrester (The MIT Press,30 Cambridge, MA, 1961). |
| A simpler introduction to System Dynamics along with a number of
exercises is Principles of Systems by Jay W. Forrester (The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1968). |
| Another useful resource, containing a number of interesting real world examples is
System Enquiry, A System Dynamic Approach by Eric F. Wolstenholme (John Wiley & Sons, New York 1990). This book also gives a brief introduction to what, in this manual, is called policy optimization. |
| A very popular and readable book covering many conceptual issues in thinking systemically about problems is
The Fifth Discipline by Peter M. Senge (Doubleday, New York, 1990). |
| An interesting and controversial work, World Dynamics by Jay W. Forrester (The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1971; second edition, 1973) discusses growth in a finite world. This model
is supplied with Vensim. |
Ventana Systems UK Ltd. — Sable
Developed by Ventana Systems UK
Ltd., Sable
is a programming environment used in creating application interfaces for Vensim,
similar to the Venapp builder. Sable has a
number of features which make it unique and useful. You can program
web-based interfaces that run over intranets or the internet. Learn more about
Sable.
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