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Additional authors

1. Odum, Elisabeth C.

Description

1. xx, 458 pages : illustrations; 26 cm +

Summary

1. "Modeling for all Scales uses object-oriented programming to erect and evaluate the efficacy of models of small-, intermediate-, and large-scale systems. Such models allow users to employ intuitively based symbols and a systems ecology approach. The authors, leaders in the systems ecology community, have originated much of the scientific vocabulary of the field.
2. After an introduction to modeling and its benefits, several chapters detailing the more particular elements of successful simulation are followed by another series of chapters, each devoted to models of different sorts of systems. Small-scale models of growth, competition, and evolution give way, successively, to larger and larger scale models such as international trade and the global geobiosphere.
3. Anyone interested in an easy-to-use approach to modeling complex systems authored by perhaps the most original systems ecologists of the century will want this book."--BOOK JACKET.

Alternative title

1. Introduction to system simulation
2. System simulation

Subject

1. Ecology > Simulation methods
2. Biological models

Contents

1. Ch. 1. Modeling and Simulation -- Ch. 2. Energy Systems Diagramming -- Ch. 3. Numbers on Networks -- Ch. 4. Simulation with Picture Blocks for Extend -- Ch. 5. Simulation with General Systems Blocks for Extend -- Ch. 6. Equations from Diagrams -- Ch. 7. Calibrating Models -- Ch. 8. Simulating with Spreadsheet -- Ch. 9. Programming in Basic -- Ch. 10. Simulating with Stella -- Ch. 11. Simulating Emergy and Transformity -- Ch. 12. Models of Production and Recycle -- Ch. 13. Models of Growth -- Ch. 14. Models of Competition and Cooperation -- Ch. 15. Models of Series and Oscillation -- Ch. 16. Minimodels of Succession and Evolution -- Ch. 17. Models of Microeconomics -- Ch. 18. Models of Macroeconomic Overview -- Ch. 19. Models of International Relations and Trade -- Ch. 20. Models of the Global Geobiosphere -- Ch. 21. Modeling Projects and Complexity -- Ch. 22. Simulation Approaches -- Appendix A. Programming Energy Systems Blocks for Simulating with Extend --
2. Appendix B. Notes on Computer use and Basic Programming -- Appendix C. Answers to "What If" Experimental Problems -- Appendix D. Use of Energy Systems Symbols -- Appendix E. Contents of the CD Supplied with this Book.

Owning institution

1. Columbia University Libraries