Re: Berkeley Madonna and System Dynamics

2006-05-04 Thread Louis Macovsky, Dynamic BioSystems
Hi, I use System Dynamics (SD) models to engage stakeholders (those of little background or interest in the necessary math but are the policy-makers, hold the purse strings, and hold the biases as the system experts). I believe SD is probably the most intuitive modeling platform to build CT

Re: Berkeley Madonna and System Dynamics

2006-05-04 Thread Christopher Brooks
Hi Lou, Wikipedia defines System Dynamics as: System dynamics is one approach to modeling the dynamics of complex systems such as population, ecological and economic systems, which usually interact strongly with each other. Systems Dynamics was founded in the early 1960s by Jay W.

RE: Attempting to implement queue between states

2006-05-04 Thread Lutz, Charles D
HI Prof. Lee, Revisiting Volume 1 Section 2.10.3, I believe I misinterpreted something - I must have made it an I/O port manually. It makes sense that only output ports should get automagically transformed to input/output ports as per the discussion. Now, upon increasing the MIC instances 1,

Re: Attribute updates not appearing in MoML document

2006-05-04 Thread Edward A. Lee
At 12:28 PM 5/4/2006, Zimdars, Andrew wrote: I'm working on an atomic actor right now where user-specified parameter changes trigger further updates to the actor. For example, the user enters the name of a file that contains a remote service definition, and the actor loads and processes the

Re: Berkeley Madonna and System Dynamics

2006-05-04 Thread Edward A. Lee
At 09:12 AM 5/4/2006, Louis Macovsky, Dynamic BioSystems wrote: What would it take to encourage Ptolemy developers to build a SD-like layer of system modeling (using icons of stock and flows and also keep the converters and look-up tables or graphs) interfaced with the more mathematically