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  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,672 Views
24 Pages

14 June 2022

For decades, system dynamics has been utilised as a framework for evaluating and interpreting various types of systems with varying degrees of complexity and knowledge demands. Knowledge management is strongly related to system dynamics on a thematic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,840 Views
22 Pages

System Dynamics Approach to TALC Modeling

  • Marko Hell and
  • Lidija Petrić

25 April 2021

The system dynamics applied in this research on modeling a tourist destination (area) life cycle (TALC) contributes to understanding its behavior and the way that information feedback governs the use of feedback loops, delays and stocks and flows. On...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,894 Views
25 Pages

Postal Digital Transformation Dynamics—A System Dynamics Approach

  • Kgabo Mokgohloa,
  • Mukondeleli Grace Kanakana-Katumba,
  • Rendani Wilson Maladzhi and
  • Sbusiso Xaba

10 October 2023

The key motivation of the study was to explore and enlarge our understanding of the factors that inhibit and drive the performance of the postal sector in a dynamic setting in the context of Southern Africa. This study was prompted by the unsatisfact...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,661 Views
19 Pages

25 September 2019

System dynamics (SD) is a complex systems modeling and simulation approach with wide ranging applications in various science and engineering disciplines. While subject matter experts lead most of the model building, recent advances have attempted to...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
8,297 Views
9 Pages

16 November 2017

This paper presents a conceptual model of land as a coupled human–environment system. Land use and land cover are incorporated as elements of the human and environment system respectively. Drivers and associated processes that influence land use, lan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,507 Views
18 Pages

Under the new wave of scientific and technological revolution, the construction industry finds itself with a critical need to alter the traditional and outdated production mode through technological innovation in order to realize industry transformat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
14,129 Views
31 Pages

A System Dynamics Model of Employees’ Performance

  • Mudhafar Alefari,
  • Mohammed Almanei and
  • Konstantinos Salonitis

12 August 2020

Employee performance is dynamic and can have great impact on the overall performance of any company and its sustainability. A number of factors that can be controlled by the company can affect the employees’ performance. The present paper start...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,692 Views
25 Pages

9 May 2020

In this paper, the variations in hydropower generation are addressed considering the seasonality and ENSO (El Niño-Southern Oscillation) episodes. The dynamic hypothesis and the stock-flow structure of the Colombian electricity market were ana...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,045 Views
32 Pages

19 April 2022

The deep-seabed mining system for mining resources consists of a mining vessel, lifting riser, lifting pump, buffer system, flexible riser, and mining robot. Because this system is exposed to extreme environments such as fluid resistance, high water...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
8,733 Views
13 Pages

Modelling a Safety Management System Using System Dynamics at the Bhopal Incident

  • Mario Di Nardo,
  • Marianna Madonna,
  • Teresa Murino and
  • Francesco Castagna

30 January 2020

In a safety management system (SMS), risk management plays a key role for the prevention of accidents. This study aims to propose a safety management model by using a system dynamics approach applied to the Bhopal incident. The model proposed in this...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
12,207 Views
22 Pages

29 May 2018

The complexity of ecological-economic systems significantly reduces our ability to investigate their behavior and propose policies aimed at various environmental and/or economic objectives. Following recent suggestions for integrating nonlinear dynam...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,675 Views
27 Pages

This study aims to develop a system dynamics (SD) model for sustainability management driven by dynamic capabilities (DC) perspective. DC has been suggested as a vital organization theory for gaining sustainable competitive advantage. In contrast, SD...

  • Article
  • Open Access
610 Views
23 Pages

Integrating System-Theoretic Process Analysis and System Dynamics for Systemic Risk Analysis in Safety-Critical Systems

  • Ahmed Shaban,
  • Ahmed Abdelwahed,
  • Islam H. Afefy,
  • Giulio Di Gravio and
  • Riccardo Patriarca

This paper presents a novel integration of System-Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA) and System Dynamics (SD) for hazard and resilience analysis in safety-critical infrastructure systems. The methodology is applied iteratively to assess the safety and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,473 Views
22 Pages

9 August 2023

The dynamic and complex interactions between the urban freight-transportation system and population, economy, traffic flow, fuel consumption, and environmental pollution, make policymaking in this system one of the fundamental challenges of urban man...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
10,223 Views
30 Pages

Assessing Risks in Dairy Supply Chain Systems: A System Dynamics Approach

  • Maryam Azizsafaei,
  • Amin Hosseinian-Far,
  • Rasoul Khandan,
  • Dilshad Sarwar and
  • Alireza Daneshkhah

4 August 2022

Due to the dynamic nature of the food supply chain system, food supply management could suffer because of, and be interrupted by, unforeseen events. Considering the perishable nature of fresh food products and their short life cycle, fresh food compa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,601 Views
25 Pages

A System Dynamics Framework for Academic Entrepreneurship

  • Jing Xia,
  • Wei Liu,
  • Sang-Bing Tsai,
  • Guodong Li,
  • Chien-Chi Chu and
  • Kai Wang

12 July 2018

Academic entrepreneurship (AE) models have enhanced the ability of scholars to delineate elements and relationships that are consistent with entrepreneurial activities. However, previous research has not focused on the dynamic feedback loops within A...

  • Review
  • Open Access
115 Citations
15,847 Views
27 Pages

A System Dynamics Simulation Applied to Healthcare: A Systematic Review

  • Mohammad Reza Davahli,
  • Waldemar Karwowski and
  • Redha Taiar

In recent years, there has been significant interest in developing system dynamics simulation models to analyze complex healthcare problems. However, there is a lack of studies seeking to summarize the available papers in healthcare and present evide...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,505 Views
15 Pages

Screw Dynamics of a Multibody System by a Schoenflies Manipulator

  • Jing-Shan Zhao,
  • Han-Lin Sun,
  • Hao-Yang Li and
  • Dong-Jie Zhao

28 August 2023

This paper presents a screw dynamics method for multi-rigid-body systems. It establishes the relationship between velocity screw (twist) and force screw (wrench) in the theorem of momentum screw. Then, the structure of a 2UPS + 2UPU parallel manipula...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,572 Views
13 Pages

24 March 2020

System dynamics implementations of financial statements are currently limited by the lack of a simple to use, yet sufficiently detailed model that operationally replicates the accounting reporting process for the income statement, balance sheet, cash...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,985 Views
14 Pages

8 December 2022

Coal and gas co-mining is one of the green mining technologies in coal mines. Coal and gas co-mining can reduce environmental pollution and supply-side carbon emissions from the coal industry. It has an important role to play in achieving the goal of...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,591 Views
22 Pages

Unpacking the Dynamics of Urban Transformation in Heritage Places through ‘Critical System Dynamics’: The Case of Beresford Square, Woolwich

  • Kalliopi Fouseki,
  • Lorika Hisari,
  • Xinqiao Dong,
  • Chiara Bonacchi,
  • Elizabeth Robson,
  • Elisa Broccoli,
  • Torgrim Sneve Guttormsen,
  • Michele Nucciotti and
  • Sharon Shieh

9 November 2023

Rapidly growing research in urban heritage studies highlights the significance of incorporating participatory approaches in urban transformation projects. And yet, participation tends to be limited, including only certain segments of the population....

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,502 Views
19 Pages

17 May 2022

The roll-bearing-bearing housing (RBBH) system is one of the most common kernel structures used to determine strip mill stability and product surface quality in modern metallurgical machinery. To better understand dynamic characteristics of the RBBH...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
8,732 Views
22 Pages

Utility Perception in System Dynamics Models

  • Saeed P. Langarudi and
  • Isa Bar-On

28 September 2018

The utility perceived by individuals is believed to be different from the utility experienced by that individual. System dynamicists implicitly categorize this phenomenon as a form of bounded rationality, and traditionally employ an exponential smoot...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
11,347 Views
16 Pages

System Dynamics Modeling of the Massachusetts SREC Market

  • Hilary Flynn,
  • Dwayne Breger,
  • Andrew Belden,
  • Asmeret Bier,
  • Chad Laurent,
  • Natalie Andrews and
  • Wilson Rickerson

31 August 2010

As states across the country struggle to increase local development of renewable energy, policymakers are turning to innovative program designs to meet their renewable electricity targets. Massachusetts recently adopted a unique, auction-based price...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
8,141 Views
15 Pages

15 February 2018

Veterinary telemedicine has existed since the late 1990s. Various scholars have predicted its growth, others its decline. We constructed a system dynamics model of a veterinary telemedicine company providing services in one specialty in the industry....

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,850 Views
28 Pages

Design and Development of a Mathematical Model for an Industrial Process, in a System Dynamics Environment

  • Jorge Manuel Barrios Sánchez,
  • Roberto Baeza Serrato and
  • Marco Bianchetti

30 September 2022

This research proposes a methodology based on control engineering, transforming the simulation model of system dynamics into a mathematical model expressed as a system transfer function. The differential equations of a time domain present in the Forr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,141 Views
29 Pages

Ship Dynamic Positioning Output Feedback Control with Position Constraint Considering Thruster System Dynamics

  • Dongdong Mu,
  • Yupei Feng,
  • Guofeng Wang,
  • Yunsheng Fan,
  • Yongsheng Zhao and
  • Xiaojie Sun

In order to simultaneously address the issues of ship operating area limitation, unknown time-varying disturbances, immeasurable ship speed, unknown dynamics, and input saturation, this paper investigates the position-constrained ship dynamic positio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,414 Views
17 Pages

Computational Dynamics of Multi-Rigid-Body System in Screw Coordinate

  • Jing-Shan Zhao,
  • Song-Tao Wei and
  • Xiao-Cheng Sun

22 May 2023

This paper investigates the kinematics and dynamics of multi-rigid-body systems in screw form. The Newton–Euler dynamics equations are established in screw coordinates. All forces and torques of the multi-rigid-body system can be solved straigh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,056 Views
21 Pages

Advancing Sustainable Infrastructure Management: Insights from System Dynamics

  • Julio Juarez-Quispe,
  • Erick Rojas-Chura,
  • Alain Jorge Espinoza Vigil,
  • Milagros Socorro Guillén Málaga,
  • Oscar Yabar-Ardiles,
  • Johan Anco-Valdivia and
  • Sebastián Valencia-Félix

12 January 2025

Rapid infrastructure growth in developing countries has intensified environmental challenges due to cost-prioritizing practices over sustainability. This study evaluates 21 identified sustainable-driving tools to improve the management of infrastruct...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,092 Views
20 Pages

A System Dynamics Stability Model for Discrete Production Ramp-Up

  • Julian Haller,
  • Bharath Kumar,
  • Amon Göppert and
  • Robert H. Schmitt

18 December 2024

Manufacturing companies are increasingly challenged to deliver customizable products with shorter time to market and higher quality while adhering to sustainability requirements. To meet these challenges, the frequency and importance of production ra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
9,721 Views
16 Pages

Impacts of Lean Construction on Safety Systems: A System Dynamics Approach

  • Xiuyu Wu,
  • Hongping Yuan,
  • Ge Wang,
  • Shuquan Li and
  • Guangdong Wu

Lean construction has been viewed as an effective management approach for reducing the occurrence of no-value or destructive activities, such as wasting resources and safety-related accidents. However, few studies have systematically addressed how an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,455 Views
17 Pages

Emulating Non-Hermitian Dynamics in a Finite Non-Dissipative Quantum System

  • Eloi Flament,
  • François Impens and
  • David Guéry-Odelin

24 August 2023

We discuss the emulation of non-Hermitian dynamics during a given time window using a low-dimensional quantum system coupled to a finite set of equidistant discrete states acting as an effective continuum. We first emulate the decay of an unstable st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,809 Views
19 Pages

8 May 2025

Concrete demolition waste represents a critical bottleneck in achieving a circular economy for the construction sector. This study develops a system-dynamics model that couples material flows with economic and logistical feedback to quantify how cost...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,033 Views
25 Pages

A Comprehensive Analysis of Complex Dynamics in the Fractional-Order Rössler System

  • Reem Allogmany,
  • Ali Sarrah,
  • Mohamed A. Abdoon,
  • Faizah J. Alanazi,
  • Mohammed Berir and
  • Sana Abdulkream Alharbi

26 September 2025

This paper proposes a numerical technique to study dynamical systems and uncover new behaviors in chaotic fractional-order models, a field that continues to attract significant research interest due to its broad applicability and the ongoing developm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
6,076 Views
19 Pages

A System Dynamics Model for CO2 Mitigation Strategies at a Container Seaport

  • Yuliya Mamatok,
  • Yingyi Huang,
  • Chun Jin and
  • Xingqun Cheng

16 May 2019

With the rapid development of the container shipping industry, the mitigation of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from container seaport activities have become an urgent problem. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to investigate dynamic problem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,119 Views
16 Pages

2 October 2019

Farming systems are complex and include a variety of interacting biophysical and technical components. This complexity must be taken into account when designing farming systems to improve sustainability, but more methods are needed to be able to do s...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
14 Citations
9,882 Views
23 Pages

The Design of Educational Programs in System Dynamics at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)

  • Oleg V. Pavlov,
  • James K. Doyle,
  • Khalid Saeed,
  • James M. Lyneis and
  • Michael J. Radzicki

21 March 2014

Educational programs leading to degrees in system dynamics are rare and thus of critical importance to the future of the field of system dynamics. However, to a large extent such programs have not yet been made transparent to the system dynamics comm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
66 Citations
7,335 Views
21 Pages

26 February 2019

The lack of practical application and accurate benefit analysis, which are the prerequisites for each other, make it difficult to implement and promote the underground logistics system (ULS), although in theory people always recognize its advantages...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,371 Views
14 Pages

21 September 2021

In this paper, the non-linear dynamical behavior of a 3D autonomous dissipative system of Hopf–Langford type is investigated. Through the help of a mode transformation (as the system’s energy is included) it is shown that the 3D nonlinear system can...

  • Article
  • Open Access
710 Views
19 Pages

Full Process Dynamics and HIL Simulation of Precise Airdrop System

  • Wen Zou,
  • Zhanxin Cui,
  • Jiaoyan Li and
  • Qingbin Zhang

31 October 2025

Amid intensifying competition in airdrop equipment development, there is a growing demand for large-load, high-precision, maneuverable, and low-cost airdrop systems. However, Precision Aerial Delivery Systems (PADS) exhibit structural complexity and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,067 Views
24 Pages

6 February 2020

For the integrated energy system of coupling electrical, cool and heat energy and gas and other forms of energy, the medium- and long-term integrated demand response of flexible load, energy storage and electric vehicles and other demand side resourc...

  • Review
  • Open Access
29 Citations
10,456 Views
29 Pages

30 October 2023

Social–ecological system (SES) modeling involves developing and/or applying models to investigate complex problems arising from the interactions between humans and natural systems. Among the different types, agent-based models (ABM) and system...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
7,406 Views
20 Pages

System Dynamics Modeling for Supporting Drought-Oriented Management of the Jucar River System, Spain

  • Adria Rubio-Martin,
  • Manuel Pulido-Velazquez,
  • Hector Macian-Sorribes and
  • Alberto Garcia-Prats

15 May 2020

The management of water in systems where the balance between resources and demands is already precarious can pose a challenge and it can be easily disrupted by drought episodes. Anticipated drought management has proved to be one of the main strategi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,790 Views
18 Pages

Contribution of Cardiorespiratory Coupling to the Irregular Dynamics of the Human Cardiovascular System

  • Yurii M. Ishbulatov,
  • Tatiana S. Bibicheva,
  • Vladimir I. Gridnev,
  • Mikhail D. Prokhorov,
  • Marina V. Ogneva,
  • Anton R. Kiselev and
  • Anatoly S. Karavaev

28 March 2022

Irregularity is an important aspect of the cardiovascular system dynamics. Numerical indices of irregularity, such as the largest Lyapunov exponent and the correlation dimension estimated from interbeat interval time series, are early markers of card...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,570 Views
12 Pages

23 February 2022

Systems with multiple time scales, often referred to as `slow–fast systems’, have been a focus of research for about three decades. Such systems show a variety of interesting, sometimes counter-intuitive dynamical behaviors and are believ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,959 Views
19 Pages

2 September 2022

With the complexity of the socio-technical system, the requirement for safety analysis is growing. In actuality, system risk is frequently created by the interaction of numerous nonlinear-related components. It is essential to use safety assessment m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,207 Views
17 Pages

Effects of Population Dynamics on Establishment of a Restriction-Modification System in a Bacterial Host

  • Stefan Graovac,
  • Andjela Rodic,
  • Magdalena Djordjevic,
  • Konstantin Severinov and
  • Marko Djordjevic

7 January 2019

In vivo dynamics of protein levels in bacterial cells depend on both intracellular regulation and relevant population dynamics. Such population dynamics effects, e.g., interplay between cell and plasmid division rates, are, however, often neglected i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
999 Views
26 Pages

A system dynamics approach is described to explore the path of Carbon Capture diffusion. The proposed model, in principle, follows the Bass diffusion of innovation theory and includes all major influencing factors. The primary contribution of this pa...

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