Understanding the simple complex system from different information representations: phase diagram and stock & flow diagram

摘要：

-The world is full of complexity. Better understanding of the complex system can help us to make better decisions. Thus, the way to show and understand complexity receives a lot of attention from researchers and teachers. In this study, we try to find out that phase diagram VS stock & flow diagram, which one is more helpful to understand a simple complex system.A simple model with only one stock is used in the experiment. Subjects without any system dynamics background are provided with full information but different representations. The experiment result shows that the ignorance of nonlinearity and feedback persists in all of the subjects. No matter what they are presented,phase diagram, stock & flow diagram, or both,their performances are statistically the same.

关键词： experiment complex system Information

作者: Liu Yongping Feifei Xu

作者单位: Management School Fuzhou University Fuzhou, Fujian, China

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2007 Conference on Systems Science, Management Science and System Dynamics(第二届系统科学、管理科学与系统动力学国际会议)

会议地点: 上海

会议语种:英文

页码: 1471-1478

在线出版日期: 2007-10-19（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）