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

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Your First ABM

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Imagine you've been given the responsibility for managing a project that's behind schedule and experiencing substantial pressure to get the project back on track. What are your options.

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Project Challenge

Gene Bellinger

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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.

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The Game of Life

Gene Bellinger

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An introduction to what seems to be our typical approach to dealing with problems that arise unexpectedly when we're focused on dealing with other immediate issues.

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Problem Solving

Gene Bellinger

Teacher cheating on standardized tests is a recurring theme in recent national headlines, ranging from teachers looking at tests in advance to develop study guides, to teachers and administrators erasing and correcting student answers after they have submitted tests. The media and the school communities have responded to these stories with shock and out-rage, often vilifying individual teachers and administrators.

In this piece, we examine the factors that contribute to teacher cheating and provide insights from a System Thinker’s perspective.

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Teacher Cheating

Gene Bellinger

The establishment of a goal is one way to provide a basis for results thought is has its difficulties.

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Goal Influenced Results

Gene Bellinger

A map of the elements associated with Systems Thinking as defined by different sources.

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Systems Thinking Methodologies

Gene Bellinger

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Investigations into the relationships responsible for the success and failure of nations. This investigation was prompted after reading numerous references on the subject and perceiving that *Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty* by Acemoglu and Robinson seem to make a great deal of sense.

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Clone of Why Nations Fail

John Doe

An example of why it's so critical to understand where the boundaries are when considering a system. (developed from Eric Wolstenholme's Archetype examples by Gene Bellinger)

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Hospital Early Discharge Boundaries

Gene Bellinger

A model to use for the basics of storytelling.

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Basic Storytelling

Gene Bellinger

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There are numerous influences which work against the possibility of sustainable capitalism though there are a few that might be put in place to actually support its emergence.

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Sustainable Capitalism

Gene Bellinger

My first simulation model example.

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Demo Bathtub

Gene Bellinger

The Exponential Growth Archetype is a reinforcing structure which promotes exponential growth. This is one of the two foundation archetypes. The other being the goal seeking structure. See also Archetypes.

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SystemsWiki's Musings

Arquétipo do Crescimento Exponencial

Ravi Resck

New Learning tend to reduce Outdated Thinking, Communicating & Learning though our Outdated Thinking, Communicating & Learning inhibits new learning. The question is then how do we break this cycle. Adopted from "An Introduction to Systems Thinking with STELLA" by Barry Richmond.

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New Learning Inhibited/Breaking the Cycle

Gene Bellinger

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

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Stock & Flow Diagrams

Gene Bellinger

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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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Exponential Decay

Gene Bellinger

The strategy is actually a set of structural changes that have to be made to the relationships that cause the future to be different than the past.

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Network Magic/Strategy

Gene Bellinger

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

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Adjusting the Shower/SFD

Gene Bellinger

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The meaningful relationship between a business and its customers should be a reinforcing structure.

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Business and its Customers

Gene Bellinger

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

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Network Magic/Stakeholders

Gene Bellinger

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

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Clone of Drifting Goals Archetype

Kyle Metta

The limits to results structure endeavors to bring a balance between a current state and a desired state though more often than not the action is limited by some constraint. See also Archetypes.

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Clone of Limits to Action Archetype - VINCOLO. Limiti all'archetipo di azione

Yuto OGUCHI

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

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Insight Maker/Folder

Gene Bellinger

A System is a matter of perspective.

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Systems Views

Gene Bellinger

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