List of Contents -- Plenary Sessions -- The System Dynamics National Model: Macrobehavior from Microstructure -- The Structured Systems Approach for the Design of Optimisation and Simulation Models -- Misperceptions of Feedback in Dynamic Decision Making -- Synergetics and Social Science -- Corporate Strategic Thinking: The Role of System Dynamics -- A System Dynamics Model and Policy Analysis for National Education and Economy Development -- Parallel Sessions -- Business policy and strategy -- Development and Use of System Dynamics Models as Tools for Strategic Planning of Flexible Assembly Systems -- A System Dynamics Model for Automation -- Planned Organizational Change: Theory, Model, Data und Simulation -- Accounting Measurement and Methodological Characteristics of Accounting Dynamics -- Flexible Manufacturing and it's Benefits for the Financial Situation of an Enterprise -- Modelling Business Strategies for Verification of Planning -- Market Analysis and Forecasting as a Strategic Business Tool -- Loop-Based Strategic Decision Support Systems - Theory and Application -- Modelling a Biotechnology Startup Firm -- Computerbased Decision Support of Strategic Planning and Strategic Management with System Dynamics Models - Illustrated by the Example of the German Federal Railway -- Teaching and Training -- Feedback Delays and Control in Complex Dynamic Systems -- A Successful Management Training Institution Must Interact Intensively with its Environment -- A Study on Human Control in Stock-Adjustment Tasks -- A Metalanguage for Communication, Confidence and Commitment: A New Perspective on Influence Diagrams -- A Training Game and Behavioral Decision Making Research Tool: An Alternative Use of System Dynamics Simulation -- Organizational Learning: A New Challenge for System Dynamics -- Methodology and theory/optimization -- Generic Qualitative Behavior of Elementary System Dynamics Structures -- Tests of Model Behavior that Can Detect Structural Flaws: Demonstration with Simulation Experiments -- Modeling Control of DNA-Replication in Bacterial Cells -- Designing a Manufacturing Policy Using the Reference Approach and Alternative System Dynamics Support Methods -- Fuzzy Evaluation on the Validity of System Dynamics Models -- Aggregate Dynamics of a Population of Commodity Cycle Models -- System Formalitation and Models Building -- Tomorrow, Today: System Dynamics Models or Expert Systems? -- A Study of Sensitive Test -- Gaming & decision theory/computer-based learning -- Learning in Dynamic Simulation Games; Using Performance as a Measure -- Computer-Based Case Studies in Management Education and Research -- Learning Laboratories: Designing a Reflective Learning Environment -- Modelling the Process of Complex System Control -- Eliciting Group Knowledge for Model-Building -- A Dynex-Based Learning Laboratory for Economic Development Planning -- Macro economics policy -- A Critique of Roemer's Conception of Exploitation -- A System Dynamics Approach to the Function of the Economic Leverages in China's Economy -- A Socio-Economy Development Strategy Study of a Typical Underdeveloped Coastal Open City -- Quantitative Analysis of Inflation Issue in China -- Government policy and planning -- Elements for Periurban Dynamics -- Energy Supply Modelling: The Case of Cyclades -- A System-Dynamics Examination of the Effects of the Mahaweli-Project in Sri Lanka -- A System Dynamics Model for National Energy Policy Planning -- Schedule Delays and New Financing for the Argentine Electricity Sector Growth -- Corporate and Statewide Perspectives on the Liability Insurance Crisis -- System Dynamics Applications in the Sector of Electricity -- A Study of Shanghai's Industrial Structure -- An Application of System Dynamics to the Research on the Strategy of Rural Development in Heilongjiang Province -- The Dynamic Relationship Between Transportation and Other Industries in China -- A S.D. Model for Rational Exploitation and Utilization of Water Resources in Arid and Semi-Arid Areas -- Modelling technology -- System Dynamics as a Tool for Historians: The Role of Software -- Non-Linear Dynamic Phenomena in Electron Transfer Devices -- Rössler Bands in Economic and Biological Systems -- Creating System Dynamics Models Hierarchically Using SADT -- Knowledge-Based Modelling -- System Dynamics Simulation of Spatial Character -- Chaos Study in System Dynamics -- Improving Insight and Understanding by Optimising System Dynamics Models -- Technology & project management -- A Study on the Coordinated Development of the R&D and Socio-Economy for a Typical Large City in China Using System Dynamics Approach -- The Coordinative Development Between R&D and Tech-Acquisition in China -- Dynamic Modelling and Policy Analysis on Technological Progress and the Change of Industrial Structure -- War, peace & conflict management -- The Planning and Controlling of Infantry and Artillery Joint Combat Operation -- System Dynamics and Defence Analysis -- System Dynamics Modeling of Air Warfare -- The Origins of Mass Warfare: A System Dynamics Approach -- Government's Ability to Manage Political Conflict over the Course of Economic Development -- Additional Papers -- Gaming to Implement System Dynamics Models -- Water Resources Development Planning.