Groundwater has been declining in Bangladesh since introduction of deep tube wells (DTWs) and shallow tube wells (STWs) in late 1970s. Seasonal variation of groundwater has been shifted upto 4 meters during last 33 years. During Boro seasons groundwater table dropped drastically than other...

This is a lightly edited transcript of the first half of the Fireside chat with Professor Jay Wright Forrester (JWF) held on July 24, 2013 at the 31st system dynamics conference in Cambridge, MA. Professor Forrester was 95 at the time of the interview. He passed away in 2016, just short of his...

System Dynamics is an alternative calculus that is intuitive and can be implemented on modern computers – models built with it are not abstract and can be verified. Using this alternative calculus, it proposes an alternative economics, whose actors are not rational agents, but managers. It is...

Humanitarian responses are complex and expensive. Response efforts, particularly, immediately after the disasters are further difficult and challenging. Due to the increasing accuracy and reliability of forecast of climate induced disasters, humanitarian agencies have initiated the...

The main objective of this paper is to develop and validate a methodology to select the most important key performance indicators from the balanced scorecard. The methodology uses and validates the implicit systemic hypothesis in the balanced scorecard model, together with a qualitative and...

The literature associated with system modeling and decision-making falls short in automating policy formation for correlated multiple-policy multiple-objective (MPMO) processes. Enthused by the effectiveness of multivariable control theory, this paper proposes the implementation of a...

We consider a firm that faces the following pricing and leadtime disclosure decision. Either, (1) offer the same price to all arriving customers and disclose no leadtime information, in which case customers know only an expected leadtime, or, (2) vary the price dynamically based on the current...