Comments on: Update on the system dynamics course http://www.vesterberg.se/2009/01/13/update-on-the-system-dynamics-course/ Solving problems, finding new ways - applied systems thinking Sun, 07 Aug 2011 23:49:19 +0200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: anders http://www.vesterberg.se/2009/01/13/update-on-the-system-dynamics-course/comment-page-1/#comment-11187 anders Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:16:14 +0000 http://www.vesterberg.se/?p=695#comment-11187 David, Interesting to hear about Tegu. Can I find it somewhere? When first looking for tools I did a quick scan, but didn't find any open source software. Perhaps I was too quick. What in particular didn't you like with Vensim? Yes, I definitively plan to write more. And I would like to discuss more... /Anders David,
Interesting to hear about Tegu. Can I find it somewhere? When first looking for tools I did a quick scan, but didn’t find any open source software. Perhaps I was too quick. What in particular didn’t you like with Vensim?
Yes, I definitively plan to write more. And I would like to discuss more…
/Anders

]]> By: David Richards http://www.vesterberg.se/2009/01/13/update-on-the-system-dynamics-course/comment-page-1/#comment-11182 David Richards Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:15:50 +0000 http://www.vesterberg.se/?p=695#comment-11182 I whole-heartedly agree. It takes just a little modeling to start to see the incredibly important dynamics that are in play all around us. I took a course last year in Portland State's System Science program on systems dynamics. It really opened my eyes. I was, however, thoroughly unimpressed with the tools that we used to explore these things. My professor challenged me to build a better solution. I've included that challenge in a large, and still not fully released open-source project, Tegu. Learning to build that better system has asked me to look even more deeply into the relations between things. One of these days Tegu will have a great system dynamics library in it. Maybe you'd care to write an article about the approaches your taking to systems dynamics? I have your RSS on a reader that I regularly review (life.teguhub.com), and I'd love to see how other people are approaching the problem. I whole-heartedly agree. It takes just a little modeling to start to see the incredibly important dynamics that are in play all around us. I took a course last year in Portland State’s System Science program on systems dynamics. It really opened my eyes.

I was, however, thoroughly unimpressed with the tools that we used to explore these things. My professor challenged me to build a better solution. I’ve included that challenge in a large, and still not fully released open-source project, Tegu. Learning to build that better system has asked me to look even more deeply into the relations between things. One of these days Tegu will have a great system dynamics library in it.

Maybe you’d care to write an article about the approaches your taking to systems dynamics? I have your RSS on a reader that I regularly review (life.teguhub.com), and I’d love to see how other people are approaching the problem.

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