A Tragedy of the Commons situation exists whenever two or more activities, each, which in order to produce results, rely on a shared limited resource. Results for these activities continue to develop as long as their use of the limited resource doesn't exceed the resource limit. Once this limit is reached the results produced by each activity are limited to the level at which the resource is replenished. See also Archetypes.

Based on Toward a General Theory of Societal Collapse which references Tainter's Model.

Example of using Pulse function to create a recurring delay.

The limits to growth structure is based on the basic growth structure. And, as should be obvious, nothing grows forever as growth requires resources. Those required resources become a limits to growth. See also Archetypes.

Success to the successful archetype represents two reinforcing structures which may be in a delicate balance though as soon as one gains a small advantage the resource allocation favors the more successful and the result is then rapidly skewed in the direction of the more successful. See also Archetypes.

An implementation of the classic Game of Life using agent based modeling.

Rules:

• A live cell with less than two alive neighbors dies.
• A live cell with more than three alive neighbors dies.
• A dead cell with three neighbors becomes alive.

What's the real difficulty associated with managing time?

This is a model used to generate the historical patterns of behavior for the Network Magic example.

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This is a segment of Simulation with Insight Maker.

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Image from "All models are wrong: reflections on becoming a systems scientist" by John Sterman.

The delays associated with adjusting the shower is a very common example of the Balancing Loop with Delay Systems Archetype.

Implications of a variation between deadline and expected project completion date.

This is the sample model used as a demo for enfolding and unfolding a model. This is what we had to do before the Storytelling feature was developed. Save this one for posterity!

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How to get this thing to pause based on observation.

The limits to growth structure is based on the basic growth structure. And, as should be obvious, nothing grows forever as growth requires resources. Those required resources become a limits to growth. See also Archetypes.

Bathtub model with max fill rate control added to account for the maximum rate water can enter via the faucet.

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Escape behavior often results in more stress than one escapes from.

Inventory Model v3.0 adds target inventory adjustment to maintain desired service level. See also: Inventory Model v2.0.

While Knowledge-Centered Support is rather easy to understand and has amazing potential realizing that potential seems to be quite elusive.

The Model being used as part of the Collaborative Model Development project at Systems Thinking World.

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A spatially aware, agent based model of disease spread. There are three classes of people: susceptible (healthy), infected (sick and infectious), and recovered (healthy and temporarily immune).

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Examples of reinforcing and balancing loops enhanced with images to maybe them more visually engaging.

Simple savings account.

Example of using Pulse function to create a recurring delay.