This is my first attempt at creating a simple Agent Based Simulation Model. Nothing fancy, just something that works.

Supply and Demand tend to oscillate back and forth though Price.

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It's now time for the stakeholders to take the investigation resulting from leverage and craft a strategy which will address the current situation in a manner that is beneficial to the whole system.

The goal seeking structure endeavors to bring a balance between a current state and a desired state. This is one of the two foundation archetypes. The other being the growth structure. See also Archetypes.

A model to use to demonstrate scenarios using button scripts.

A System is a matter of perspective.

This diagram presents the valid relationships between stocks, flows, and parameters. Ghosts of Stocks, Flows, and Converters can be created as needed.

Network Magic can be considered to have four primary stakeholders, the company, Support, Other Organizations, and Customers.

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Folders allow one to hide the detail complexity in certain places.

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My first simulation model example.

Two goal seeking structures attempting to resolve and based on the delay one may tend to settle for less. See also Archetypes.

Identification of the leverage points within the Network Magic Structure is essential to developing a strategy.

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Example of the exponential decay of a Stock with the decay rate being a function of a decay constant.

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Rich Pictures are simply pictorial representations of the relations between a number of relevant elements. The strength of rich pictures is that they're free form without any formal rules, which also tends to be the shortcoming of rich pictures.

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It's relatively well understood that you can't be all things to all people. Somewhere one has to make choices. An Attractiveness Principle Systems Archetype is essentially a Limits to Growth Systems Archetype with multiple limits, all of which can not be addressed equally. 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.

This model depicts the current understanding of how I am managing my content across all the various web repositories.

This common archetype of systems that include relapse or recidivism allows exploration of the unintended effects of increasing upstream capacity and swamping downstream capacity. The increase in the relapse rate eventually returns to swamp upstream capacity as well. A social welfare example, based on a TANF case study, from How Small System Dynamics Models Can Help the Policy Process. N. Ghaffarzadegan, J. Lyneis, GP Richardson. System Dynamics Review 27,1 (2011) 22-44 Conference version at http://bit.ly/HlxtZj

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Demonstrate that the same diagram is appropriate whether the interest rate is positive or negative.

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

Being overly concerned about where to start often precludes one from starting. Think Nike, "Just do it!" Seldom can one ever get it right the first time, just think "Trial and learning."

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The city of Bergen has a goal of becoming fossil-free in 2030. How do we get there? Some weeks ago, local experts from different domains came together and developed a causal loop diagram (CLD). This will form the skeleton for the modelling hackathon.

Insight synthesis of exchanges to better understand the basis of this decision.

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