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| 8-23 | 1. Introduction to Modeling | none | |
| 8-25 | 2. Stella Demonstration in Class | none | |
8-25 |
1st lab: Stella Verification |
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| 8-30 | 3. Vensim Demo & Stocks and Flows | Ch 2 #1,2 (verify bank model results) | |
| 9-1 | 4. Accumulating the Flows | Ch 3 #1,2,3,4 (stocks, flows, units) | |
9-1 |
2nd lab: Stella
or Vensim Verification |
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| 9-6 | 5. The Mono Lake Case | Ch 3 #5,6 (biflow) Ch 4 #1,2 (accumulation) | |
| 9-8 | 6. Model of Mono Lake | -- | |
9-8 |
3rd lab: Mono Lake: Ch 5 #1,2,3,8 |
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| 9-13 | 7. Equilibrium Diagrams | Ch 5 #5 (Mono Lake export policy) | |
| 9-15 | 8. S Shaped Growth | Ch 6 #1,5,8 (equilibrium exercises) Extra Exercises #1 for Graduate Students | |
9-15 |
4th lab: Two Bottles Ch 6 #9,10,11 |
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| 9-20 | 9. Epidemic Dynamics | Ch 7 #4,5 (verify the sales force model, hint) | |
| 9-22 | 10. Causal Loop Diagrams & Feedback | -- | |
9-22 |
5th lab: Loops and Hikers |
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| 9-27 | 11. Homeostasis & the Span of Control | Ch 9 #12,13,14 (loops in the Mono lake model) | |
| 9-29 | 12. Daisy World | -- | |
9-29 |
6th lab: Daisy World, Ch 11 # 1,2,3,4,5 |
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| 10-4 | 13. Bulls Eye & Review | Extra Exercises
#2 for Graduate Students (MIT report on C - N Cycle Interactions) | |
| 10-6 | 14. First Exam: Part One of Book | -- | |
10-6 |
7th lab: cancelled |
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| 10-11 | 15. The Modeling Process | -- | |
| 10-13 | 16. Further Progress with Software | -- | |
10-13 |
8th lab: Ch 14 insect exercises #1,2,3,4,5;
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| 10-18 | 17. Software; Intro to the Salmon Case | Seasonal Growth: Verify Figs 14.9, 14.10 (hint) | |
| 10-20 | 18. The Model of the Salmon Population | -- | |
10-20 |
9th lab: Ch 15 exercises #1-8 |
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| 10-25 | 19. Air Pollution, EVs and Feebates | Ch 15 #10 (salmon model, equivalent loss test) | |
| 10-27 | 20. Modeling a Feebate Program | -- | |
10-27 |
10th lab: (Stella Users) Ch 16 exercises
#1,3,4 |
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| 11-1 | 21. Introduction to Cyclical Behavior | -- | |
| 11-3 | 22. Cycles in Real-Estate Construction | Ch 18 #1 (verify sales model oscillations) | |
11-3 |
11th lab: Extra Exercises for Ch 18, #1,2,3,4 Oscillations in students at private college |
(The previous reading on the private college appears as the extra exercises for Ch 7.) | |
| 11-8 | 23. The Power of Interdisciplinary Modeling pass out the 2nd exam (take-home) |
Extra Exercises #3 for Graduate Students | |
| 11-10 | Bobby Jeffers: Hikers in Stella or AnyLogic? Modeling in the Real World of the INL |
Agent Based or System Dynamics? Rahmandad and Sterman (2004) | |
| 11-15 | turn in 2nd exam 25. Predator-Prey Dynamics |
Project Guidelines | |
| 11-17 | 26. Modeling Pitfalls | -- | |
11-17 |
13th lab: Exercises 17.3,17.5,17.6,17.7 |
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| 11-29 | 27. Intervals of Uncertainty (and sign up for project meetings) |
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11-29 |
14th lab: (Tues) meet with me on class project |
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| 12-1 | 28. Communicating Insights from Models | -- | |
12-1 |
14th lab (or Thur) meet with me on class projects |
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| 12-6 | 29. Separate Sessions for 310ers and 550ers | (background for grad students): p. 3-17 from paper | |
| 12-8 | 30. Selected Students' Presentations | Project Reports Due Thursday @10:35am |