1996 International System Dynamics Conference Virtual Proceedings
WWW Site with complete conference information:
 | Call for papers.
| Conference location information.
| Registration form.
| Email links to conference organizers.
| Session schedule.
| Information on SD '97 in Istanbul.
| System Dynamics Society President's Letter.
| List of authors and papers to be presented.
| Links to full papers, models and related work on authors' servers.
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Future Features:
| Searchable index (by author, title, content).
| Email links to all authors.
| Links to other SD-related sites (e.g., a future SD Society page, bibliography, sponsor sites).
| Cumulative record of conferences.
| Others?
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1996: An Experiment
| Voluntary supplement to printed proceedings.
| Approximately 40 links to authors' sites with full papers or related material.
| Broad geographic and institutional representation:
 | Academic, corporate, government, personal author pages.
| Nations: China, Croatia, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Turkey, UK, USA.
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Some Basic Arithmetic...
| Steady growth in Society and conference attendance.
| Even with four page limit, 1996 printed proceedings > 600 pages: Expensive and heavy.
| At 10 pages (old limit), would have been > 1500 pages. If full length papers allowed (30 pages), would be > 4500 pages.
| Many person weeks of effort by four people required to prepare proceedings: cost is prohibitive.
| Extra effort required of authors to prepare short versions of papers.
| We can't continue to print meaningful papers of all presenters on paper.
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A Proposal for 1997 and Beyond
| As the web becomes cheaper and more widely accessible:
| Virutal proceedings become main record of conference - no separate printed proceedings.
| One page abstracts are basis for paper acceptance and also can be printed as guide to conference for participants (aids in the selection of sessions to attend).
| Society administrative office maintains server, updates content.
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Benefits:
| Substantial cost and time savings.
| Reduced conference preparation cycle time for organizers and authors.
| Easier to recruit local conference organizers since burden of job is reduced.
| Proceedings more widely accessible, current, and useful.
| Access to full length papers maintained while still including everyone accepted.
| All postings of papers to virtual proceedings subject to review and approval of program committee and can be counted as publications on CVs.
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