Barry B. Hughes <bhughes@du.edu>
Mr. John McLeod <mcleod@sdsc.edu>
Dr. Richard W. Chadwick <chadwick@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu>
Dr. Parker Rossman <grossman@coin.org>
Dear Prof. Hughes:
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(1) Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT I).
(2) Yes, I know your name for many years. John McLeod gave
me your address
some years ago, but I was not ready to contact
you for my project on
Global Peace Gaming.
(3) My long standing quest in the past quarter century is to establish
a
Globally Collaborative Environmental Peace
Gaming with distributed
computer simulation system around global neural
computer network.
Pls visit Chapter 5 (Global Peace Gaming )
of my draft book "Electronic
Global University System and Services" at
<http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Bookwriting/PART_I/Chapter_V/ISAGA_Paper.html>.
Incidentally,
this paper was presented at The 22nd International
Conference of
The International Simulation and Gaming Association
(ISAGA), Kyoto,
Japan: 15-19 July, 1991.
I met Richard
W. Chadwick of the University of Hawaii at the
conference.
I was happy to find in your web that he is
distributing
your model. He has been one of my listserve members
for many years.
(4) I visited your web with great interest, and was very impressed.
I was happy to find that you have a student
version and a professional
version. Onishi's FUGI model is too
big for high school students -- in
early 1970s, I introduced System Dynamics
methodology to Japan, and
encouraged his including it in his model.
(5) My hope is that, when we will have many partner higher educational
institutions in various countries along with
our Global University
System, their nearby high schools may participate
in the global peace
gaming with their own country models.
(6) I was also very happy to find positive and negative loop indication
in
your flow chart as incorporating the cause-and-effect
concept of the
Systems Dynamics methodology.
(7) With your background as an economist, your model seems naturally
an
econometrics approach. On the other
hand, my background is chemical
engineering with simulation on analog computer
so that I prefer Systems
Dynamics approach.
(8) I heard of your International Futures (IFs) simulation several
times
before, but haven't studied closely yet.
I would greatly appreciate it if you can kindly
send me any hard copy
materials so that I may start considering
how to configure distributed
mode around the world through broadband Internet
-- though it may take
some more years for the preparation.
I use Mac and
I may try to download its version at your web site,
if the version
is current.
You can find my mailing address in my electronic signature below.
Thanks in advance.
(9) I am very happy knowing you. Let's keep in touch.
Dear Parker:
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(10) Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT II).
Dear John:
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(11) Pls take care of Parker's request. Thanks.
Best, Tak
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ATTACHMENT I
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 07:27:12 -0600
From: Barry Hughes <bhughes@du.edu>
Subject: World Modeling
To: utsumi@friends-partners.org
Dear Tak Utsumi,
I have seen some of your expressions of interest in a modeling structure
with multiple countries/regions represented, in order to allow
representation of their individual policy interests/decisions in
interaction with others. Also John McCleod suggested I contact
you.
Are you familiar with my International Futures (IFs) simulation?
It
sounds as if my model would have a great many of the features you are
seeking. The third ediction of that model and book were published
by
Westview this summer. Both General Motors and the CIA are using
customized versions of the more extended professional edition for their
own futures analysis.
My web address is shown below. If you do not know the book and
model
(student edition), please let me know and I will send you a copy.
Please provide a mailing address.
Yours sincerely,
Barry Hughes
--
Barry B. Hughes bhughes@du.edu
Vice Provost for Graduate Studies (303) 871-2706
University of Denver (303) 871-4566 (FAX)
Denver, CO 80208 http://www.du.edu/~bhughes/index.html
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ATTACHMENT II
Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 08:38:41 -0500 (CDT)
From: G Parker Rossman <grossman@coin.org>
To: mcleod@pauline.sdsc.du
cc: utsumi@friends-partners.org
John, I urge you to ask Tak to make one change in that excellent, imaginaive
peace game scenario involving the world bank, in his article sent to
you.
It is unfair to label all those protesters at the world bank and IMF
recently
as "riots" and many responsible NGO people as "riot leaders." It ought
to be
"protest leades." (There were a few rioters, and of course it would
be good if
they could be approached rationally as Tak suggests. But actually
the `peace
gaming' could better involve, in any case, the responsible NGO leaders
that
were surprisingly welcomed by the president of the world bank.)
Hope all is well with you. I am currently involved in discussions of
the
future of higher education with some ex-presidents of major unversities.
I
note the NEA scebarios, possible future models for universities, and
wonder if
anyone has ever done simulations of an existing higher education university
or
system. Tak's description of a global peace gaming system has proposals
that
could seriously improve and change the higher education research system...and
his method could link universities world wide for much more than peace
gaming.
Parker Rossman
grossman@coin.org
3 Lemmon Drive
author, EMERGING WORLDWIDE ELECTRONIC
Columbia MO 65201 UNIVERSITY
(Praeger, 1993)Draft of sequel volume
RESEARCH ON CRISES is at address below:
http://users.trib.net/prossman
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List of Distribution
Barry B. Hughes
Vice Provost for Graduate Studies
Professor of International Relations
Graduate School of International Studies
University of Denver
Denver, Colorado 80208
303-871-2706
Fax: (303) 871-4566
bhughes@du.edu
http://www.du.edu/~bhughes/index.html
Mr. John McLeod (Fax: 619-277-3930)
Founder
Society for Computer Simulation International (SCSI)
8484 La Jolla Shores Drive
La Jolla, CA 92037
619-454-0966
mcleod@sdsc.edu
mcleod@Sds.Sdsc.Edu
Dr. Richard W. Chadwick (Fax: 808-956-6877)
Professor, Political Science Department
University of Hawaii
Honolulu, HI 96822
Internet: chadwick@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu
Dr. Parker Rossman
3 Lemmon Drive
Columbia MO 65201-5413
573-443-3256
FAX: 314-876-5812 (emergency)
grossman@coin.org
http://www.trib.net/~prossman
http://trib.net/~prossman/
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