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Newsletters
The WPI SD Club creates the WPI System Dynamics Digest (SDigest). Ventana Systems gratuitously archived some so we can use their forum’s search feature.
Here is a list of other systems newsletters and magazines we suggest you follow:
- System Dynamics Society’s in the loop newsletter. Subscribe at the bottom of the linked page.
- Waters Center for Systems Thinking In the Loop newsletter. Subscribe at the bottom of the linked page.
- Ventana Systems newsletter for Vensim news.
- The Connector by isee systems
- Powersim News
- New England Complex Systems Institute newsletter
- Santa Fe Institute’s Parallax newsletter
Journals
- System Dynamics Review
- Systems
- Simulation
- SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems
- European Journal of Operational Research
- Operations Research
- Management Science
- Journal of the Operational Research Society
- Journal of Simulation
- Health Systems
See below for more journals that accept SD work.
Magazines
- Analytics
- Impact
- Inside OR
- OR/MS Today
- Project Performance International’s Systems Engineering Newsjournal
Blogs or Sites with Articles Written for the Public
- wiSDom by the System Dynamics Society
- Dana Meadows Must-Reads
- Making Connections hosted by isee systems. Multiple contributors.
- metaSD by Tom Fiddaman
- SystemsWiki’s Musings by Gene Bellinger
- SDwise by David Liu
- The Systems Thinker copyright Leverage Networks, Inc. Multiple contributors.
- The AnyLogic Blog
- Benjamin Schumann’s blog
- Debtwatch by Steve Keen on economics and system dynamics.
- Kate Raworth’s Doughnut Economics blog on systems thinking and economics.
- Punk Rock Operations Research by Laura Albert
- RENeW by Anna Nagurney
- mathbabe by Cathy O’Neil
- The InfoMullet by Timothy Clancy with various contributors
Video Channels/Content Creators
- WPI System Dynamics Club
- System Dynamics Society
- AnyLogic (2021 Conference Videos)
- anyLogistx
- isee systems
- Powersim Software (YouTube), Powersim (Vimeo)
- Vensim (Youtube), Ventana Systems, Inc. (Vimeo)
- CC Modeling Systems by Diana Fisher
- Climate Interactive
- Dialectic Simulation Consulting, LLC
- MITSDM
- Strategy Dynamics
- Waters Center for Systems Thinking
- Benjamin Schumann
- Emre Göktepe
- Gene Bellinger
- James Houghton
- Linda Booth Sweeney
- Nathaniel Osgood
- Peter Hovmand
- Pontifex Consulting
- Steve Keen
- Trending Cycles by Mike Radzicki
- Computational Social Science Society of the Americas (CSSSA)
- INFORMS
- The OR Society
- Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Podcasts
- SD-cast by SD Club
- Complexity by Santa Fe Institute
- Resoundingly Human by INFORMS
- Harvard Data Science Review Podcast
Discussion Boards
- System Dynamics Society Discussion Forum
- Stella Users Network
- Ventana software support forum
- Power Sim Tools
- Operations Research Stack Exchange
Simulation Software and Tools
Many of these companies also sell simulation games for you to use.
- For building models
- AnyLogic
- Insight Maker
- isee systems
- Minsky (system dynamics for economics)
- Powersim
- Silico
- Ventana Systems
- R
- System Dynamics Modeling with R by Jim Duggan
- “System Dynamics in R” by Rick Mard
- For creating interfaces and games from the models
- For translating System Dynamics Models
- PySD (Vensim or XMILE model files to Python)
- SDEverywhere (Vensim to C, WebAssembly, and HTML websites)
- For documenting System Dynamics Models, try SDM-Doc.
- For working with stakeholders to gather reference modes (behavior over time graphs), variables and other useful information for modeling
- Scriptapedia is an introduction to group model building that uses structured small group exercises called scripts.
- Workshop materials and online group facilitation templates by researchers at the University of Bergen, University of Albany, Washington University in St. Louis, etc.
- Behavior over time graph and iceberg diagram templates by the Waters Center for Systems Thinking