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Road Traffic Simulation
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You've experienced traffic from the driver's seat, now experiment with its causes using a simulation developed by Martin Treiber and Ansgar Hennecke. Watch what happens to cars and trucks on a ring-road, when lane closes, with traffic lights, on an on-ramp, or on an uphill grade.
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Aug-24-03 11:07 AM
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What is a Game?
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David Weinberger believes computers are so good at managing rules that simulations can not only make a game of guessing the rules but can actually surprise us in a way that narratives do. Not knowing what will happen next, but trusting that it will unfold in a way that accords with the rules, pulls us through simulations. From Darwin Magazine.
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Jun-23-03 01:52 PM
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The Mathematics of Marriage
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Can a few differential equations describe the course of a marriage? Jordan Ellenberg reviews Gottman's new book, The Mathematics of Marriage, with several insights that apply to business simulations including, 'Just because marriage is amenable to mathematical analysis doesn't make it completely predictable, let alone logical.'
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May-01-03 09:54 AM
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When Good People Make Bad Decisions
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Michael Schrage writes that even when managers have good data, they can still make bad decisions. People misunderstand, misinterpret and mismanage important problems. It's not that we're stupid; our thought processes have bugs. New simulation-based technologies are emerging to help us fix those bugs.
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Apr-06-03 01:25 PM
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Simulations Were Invented 50 Years Ago
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In 1953, Enrico Fermi and two of his colleagues invented the concept of a "computer experiment" or simulation. The computer experiment offered a new way of solving problems. Simulations have helped scientists and business people to see the invisible and imagine the inconceivable. Forio's nonlinear simulation engine (used in Broadcast) has its roots in this "little discovery" made by Fermi and his colleagues fifty years ago. (New York Times-- Free Registration Required)
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Mar-05-03 05:04 PM
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Fantasy Economics
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The most popular article in a leading economics archive doesn't concern tax policy, international trade, or the theory of the firm. It's about an online fantasy game. Why are economists obsessed with online role-playing games?
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Feb-22-03 02:08 PM
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Realism May Be Taking the Fun Out of Games
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New York Times writer Edward Rothstein writes that over the last twenty years video games have sought to simulate reality with increasing fidelity. Rothstein opines this has been a mixed blessing for game users.
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Feb-01-03 09:35 AM
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The Physics of Gridlock
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What causes traffic jams? The depressing answer may be nothing at all. As many of us may have suspected, recent simulations show traffic congestion can arise completely spontaneously under certain circumstances. Understanding networks of cars in traffic may help researchers understand how networks in business and the Internet operate.
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Jan-17-03 11:46 AM
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Simulation Articles from McKinsey
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An insightful and provocative series of simulation articles from McKinsey & Company that explain how simulations can be the key to successful strategic change. Articles include-- Is Simulation Better Than Experience?, Games Managers Should Play, and Strategy Under Uncertainty. (40 page PDF document)
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Dec-23-02 12:40 PM
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Game Trains Officials to Handle Terror
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A simulation developed by Sandia Labs provides a means for policy-makers to rehearse their decisions in real time in what feels like an extravagant video-game. Similar to SimCity, but with fewer graphics, officials hope to soon make the software available to agencies throughout the country who can tailor it to their region.
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Nov-02-02 07:01 PM
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Motorola Uses Web Simulations to Develop its Future Leaders
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Motorola developed an online management simulation, which integrates data from assessment tools into a profile of a manager's strengths and weaknesses. Motorola hopes the tool will help identify future leaders and energize its skills development program. Written by Polly Traylor of CIO Magazine.
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Oct-13-02 03:01 PM
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The Downside of Simulation
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The ability to simulate everything we do has a downside: analysis paralysis. Serious Play author Schrage draws a compelling picture of the potential dangers of simulation as an introspection infrastructure.
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Jul-27-02 09:07 AM
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Artificial Societies
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Artificial (that is, simulated) societies show large scale patterns evolving from seemingly unrelated, small-scale behaviors. Growing long-vanished civilizations and modern-day genocides on computers could allow researchers to anticipate the kinds of events that lie ahead, and where to look for interventions that might work.
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Apr-16-02 07:56 AM
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Exploring Emergence
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Emergence is what happens when the whole is smarter than the sum of its parts. It's what happens when you have a system of relatively simple-minded component parts -- often there are thousands or millions of them -- and they interact in relatively simple ways. Explore how emergence works through this fascinating simulation (java required) and article.
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Mar-19-02 12:24 PM
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Improving Public Policy through Game-Based Learning and Simulation
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A whitepaper by the Woodrow Wilson Center describes how government agencies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) can utilize game-based techniques, technologies, and approaches to produce innovative simulations, models, and game-based learning products that enhance public policy decisions.
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Mar-02-02 11:34 AM
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Simulating Investments to Avoid the Flaw of Averages
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While many of today's managers still cling tenaciously to 'the flaw of averages', the innovators are abandoning averages and facing up to uncertainty. Those who dare discover a New World of managerial tools including simulation, decision trees, portfolio theory and real options.
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Dec-25-01 12:41 PM
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Weather Forecasters Look Far Ahead
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Not long ago, six or seven days was considered the practical limit for accurately forecasting the weather. Competition between Weather.com and Accuweather.com have pushed forecasts out to 15 days. Climatologists run their simulations over and over again, slightly tweaking the initial conditions each time. The computers generate maps showing the outlines of each run's possible outcomes. The results, when averaged, point to the most probable future.
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Nov-26-01 10:54 AM
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Large Companies Use Demand Forecasting Software
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Companies have spent billions in the past few years automating their supply chains. Now many are focusing on the other end of the spectrum: demand. Forecasting demand poses a much tougher challenge and, potentially, a far richer payoff. Knowing what will sell and when lets companies carry less inventory, keep the right items on shelves and sell more of them at full price.
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Sep-20-01 10:35 AM
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