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In this chapter, we use the paradigm,in order to model systems that exhibit change. We choose to start with dynamical systems for several reasons. First, they are fairly easy to model following the paradigm and they can be solved through iteration on an Excel spreadsheet. We need to initially define a few terms. Let n be a counting number, 0, 1, 2, … representing the time steps to be modeled. Let A(n) represent the system at time period n. Let A(n+1) represent the system in the future, time period n+1. The model is
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Fox, W.P., Burks, R. (2019). Modeling Change with Dynamical Systems Models. In: Applications of Operations Research and Management Science for Military Decision Making. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, vol 283. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20569-0_7
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