Focusing on the use of models, this book explores how computer simulations can replicate real-world processes and the dynamics behind them. It emphasizes accessibility, making it suitable for readers without extensive knowledge in mathematics or computer science. The aim is to demystify the modeling of systems and enhance understanding of their behaviors through practical examples and simulations.
Focusing on dynamic processes within economic systems, this updated edition utilizes STELLA software models to enhance student understanding. It delves into the complexities of natural resource extraction, addressing topics ranging from chaos theory to microeconomics, making it a comprehensive resource for exploring these critical economic concepts.
The book explores the intricate interactions between economies and their ecosystems, highlighting how these open systems exchange matter and energy. It emphasizes the significance of these interactions on system performance, while also acknowledging the constraints imposed by the laws of physics. By integrating economic, ecological, and physical perspectives, the volume offers a comprehensive analysis of the economy-environment relationship.
The application allows users to tackle complex disease and pestilence cases easily, requiring only algebra knowledge and no prior programming experience. It reveals surprising insights from initially simple systems models.
Computer models offer a means of interpreting and analyzing the dynamics of real-world systems ranging from population growth to ozone depletion. Dynamic Modeling introduces an approach to modeling that makes it a more practical, intuitive endeavor. The book enables readers to convert their understanding of a phenomenon to a computer model, and then to run the model and let it yield the inevitable dynamic consequences built into the structure of the model. Dynamic Modeling uses STELLA II software to develop simulation models. Part I provides an introduction to modeling dynamic systems. Part II offers general methods for modeling. Parts III through VIII apply these methods to model real-world phenomena from chemistry, genetics, ecology, economics, and engineering. To develop and execute dynamic simulation models, Dynamic Modeling comes with STELLA II run-time software for Windows-based computers, as well as computer files of sample models used in the book. Dynamic Modeling offers a clear, approachable introduction to the modeling process, and will be of interest in any field where real problems can be illuminated by computer simulation.