Italian Chapter Report

Hereby is a very short description of the main activities the SYstem Dynamics Italian Chapter (SYDIC) has performed during the “academic year” 2003/2004:

SYDIC main activities  can be presented through the academic activities of  the  three key members of the Chapter

Habib SEDEHI (Rome “la Sapienza” University)

Teaching of fondaments of SD in  the Dipartment of Comunication Sciences (Learning technologies course)

Rsearch in use of SD as a methodology of evaluation in the e-Learning courses.

Master course: “immigration impact  management”; development of a  Business Game SD model  (GAIM – Gestione dell’Accoglinza IMmigrati).

Edoardo MOLLONA (Milan “Bocconi” University – Bologna University – Lugano University)

BOCCONI:

Course: System Dynamics & Strategy Dynamics, within the master programme named: Master in Startegic Management

BOLOGNA

Master course in System Dynamics & Strategy Dynamics, within the Degree in Internet Science (Department of Computer Science)

Research agenda focused on projects in computer simulation applied to the analysis of industry dynamics and strategic behaviour in large organisations,articulated in two threads:

a) pure system dynamics

b)integration between SD and agent-based modelling.

LUGANO

Undergraduate course in System Dynamics & Strategy Dynamics Foundation of "Laboratory for System Modelling", a research centre focused system analysis and system dynamics modelling (see the web site for ongoing research projects and downloadable working papers: http://www.lsm.eco.unisi.ch/)

Carmine Bianchi (Palermo University)

For detail see http://www.unipa.it/~bianchi

With my best regards,

Habib Sedehi

habib.sedehi@uniroma1.it