Conference Threads
A description and focus areas for each thread are provided below. When submitting your work, select the one to which it most closely belongs. Choosing accordingly improves the coherence and quality of the sessions.
Business and Strategy
Competitive Dynamics | Marketing | New Business Models | Project Management | Strategy Development
Features applications of System Dynamics in businesses and organizations including strategy development, profitability, marketing, competitive dynamics, product launches, project dynamics, and accounting.
Diversity and Ethics
Age and Ability | Equity and Inclusion | Gender and Sexuality | Social Justice | Ethics
Features applications of System Dynamics to topics such as gender, race, ethnicity, class, age, and ability, as well as work that examines structural bias and discrimination and explores ethical considerations in social systems and modeling practices.
Economics
Business and Financial Organization | Economic Growth and Development | Equity and Income Distribution | Macroeconomics | Microeconomics
Features papers improving understanding of economic dynamics including macroeconomics, microeconomics, trade, business regulation, economic development, economic policy, insurance, and risk management.
Environment and Resources
Agriculture and Food | Air, Water, and Land Use | Climate Change | Ecology and Biodiversity | Energy and Fuels | Environmental Regulation | Pollution and Waste Management
Emphasizes dynamics of natural resource management and policy for the environment including food, water, energy and climate change, pollution, environmental laws and regulation, and ecology.
Health
COVID-19 | Epidemiology | Health Disparities | Health Service Delivery | Physiology | Population Health | Treatment and Disease Management
Applies System Dynamics to issues related to health and health care including health policy, health services research, population health, and physiology.
Learning and Teaching
Community Dissemination | Interactive Activities | Learning Experiments | Pedagogy and Curriculum
The manner in which system skills are taught and learned including pedagogy, learning experiments, curriculum development, workshop design, and interactive activities designed to be part of an educational experience.
Methodology
Artificial Intelligence | Graphical Presentation Formats | Hybrid Modeling Approaches | Model Analysis | Model Development | Qualitative Methods | Model Validation
Welcomes contributions to System Dynamics modeling and simulation including quantitative and qualitative aspects of model development, model analysis, validation, graphical presentation formats, computational techniques, and integration of System Dynamics with other approaches such as Artificial Intelligence and Predictive Analytics, among others.
Operations
Capacity Management | Project Management | Service Operations | Supply Chains | Workflow | Workforce Planning
Includes business and other process operations including capacity management, quality control, operations management, supply chains, workflow, queuing, and workforce planning.
Psychology and Human Behavior
Cognitive Science | Community Development | Historical Dynamics | Organizational Behavior | Social Psychology | Social-Environmental Decision-Making
Explores the dynamics within and between social groups, including social environments or individual psychological factors, and spanning families, organizations, and societies.
Public Policy
Equity and Justice | Governance | Infrastructure | Political Science | Social Welfare | Urban Dynamics
Covers issues including governance, social welfare, equity, justice, political science, urban dynamics, and infrastructure.
Security, Stability, and Resilience
Conflict, Defense, and Military | Crime and Policing | Cybersecurity and Disinformation | Disaster Management | Food-Energy-Water Security
Investigates issues related to security, stability, and resilience, including defense, social and international conflict, military operations, insurgency, counterinsurgency, cybersecurity, disinformation, safety, disaster management, peace engineering, justice, (financial and economic) crime, policing, incarceration, socioeconomic inequality, and food-energy-water security.
Stakeholder Engagement
Community Outreach | Group Model Building | Participatory Activities
Emphasizes engaging and influencing stakeholders through participatory activities such as group model building, facilitation, facilitated modeling, games, and management flight simulators, with emphasis on assessing the impact of the engagement.
Transport and Mobility
Accessibility and Equity | Decarbonization and Sustainability | Freight and Logistics | Infrastructure Planning and Policy Design | New Technologies and Services | Non-Car and Multi-Modal Transport | Public Health and Traffic Safety
Covers all aspects of transportation systems and mobility, including transport and urban planning policies; new services, technologies, or business models; decarbonization and sustainable mobility; transport and health; and freight and logistics.