Objectives

I have several objectives in mind for this short book, but unlike Volume I, none of these can be applied immediately. The reason for this will become clear when I explain what those objectives are.

First, I want to provide an overview of system dynamic (SD) modeling. By an overview, I mean just that and no more—I do not intend to explain how to do dynamic modeling in great depth, since there are both other resources available to do that, and it would take a much larger volume than this one to do so. Second, I want to stimulate interest in SD modeling, sufficient to motivate some of my readers to learn it and do it. Part of this is my third objective, which is to illustrate the benefits of dynamic modeling from my own experience with ...

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