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Dear Colleagues,

Please note the following call for papers. The best papers will be published in SCI journal and/ or in an edited volume on the topic.

Call for papers

An invited session, promoted by SCI 2005, at the 9th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (http://www.iiisci.org/sci2005), which will take place in Orlando, Florida, USA, from July 10-13, 2005 will be on the topic: "System Dynamics in Support of Decision Making in Complex Systems".

Improving decision making and learning in complex, dynamic environments presents a major challenge to researchers. The objective of this special session is to shed light on the work of system dynamics community, specifically aimed at improving decision making in complex, dynamic environment. Innovative case studies, system dynamics based learning environments based experimental work, and theoretical papers dealing with the models of making better decisions in complex, dynamic environments are very welcomed.

Prospective contributors are invited to submit the extended abstracts (500-1500) words or paper drafts (2000-5000) words, as a single file in MS Word format, to hassanq@yorku.ca by December 31, 2004.

Deadlines: Submissions (extended abstracts or draft papers): December 31, 2004 Notification of Acceptance: January 30, 2005 Submission of camera-ready papers: March 20, 2005

Best wishes,

Hassan Qudrat-Ullah, Ph.D. School of Administrative Studies York University 4700 Keele St, Toronto, ON, Canada M3J 1P3 E-mail: hassanq@yorku.ca