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20. Jay Wright Forrester

Authors : David C. Lane, John D. Sterman

Published in: Profiles in Operations Research

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Jay Wright Forrester’s distinguishedcareer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) began with pioneering work in servomechanisms and digital computation. Drawing on that work, he then developed and founded the field of system dynamics. By integrating concepts of feedback control theory and digital computation, systems dynamics offered a new modeling approach for simulating the behavior of social systems. Such models provide insights into the behavior of complex systems and help the user to design effective policies to improve system performance. Jay established system dynamics as an academic discipline at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. He led path-breaking research applying system dynamics to critical business and public policy problems, from high-tech start-ups to urban policy and global development. System dynamics is now one of the most widely used systems approaches in the world, with academics and practitioners on every continent pursuing work in diverse fields. His writings continue to inspire the field and he remains actively involved in its development.

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Metadata
Title
Jay Wright Forrester
Authors
David C. Lane
John D. Sterman
Copyright Year
2011
Publisher
Springer US
Book
Profiles in Operations Research

Print ISBN: 978-1-4419-6280-5

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-4419-6281-2

Copyright Year: 2011

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6281-2_20