Jay Wright Forrester Award

The Jay Wright Forrester Award is presented as often as once annually for the best contribution to the field of System Dynamics during the preceding five years. The recipient receives a commemorative plaque and US$5,000. Papers, articles, books, research or consulting reports, theses or other written material that have been published or are in publishable form in the English language, in the original or after translation, are eligible for consideration.

Nominations for the Forrester Award are invited from any person whose work encompasses system dynamics or has been profoundly influenced by it. A nomination must include the following information:

	The name of the nominee.
	A complete citation of the work being nominated.
	Comments by the nominator explaining why he or she believes the work is the best contribution to the field of System Dynamics during the preceding five years. Please be as specific and persuasive as possible. Documents of one or more pages are perfectly acceptable.
	The name and affiliation of the nominator.

Click here to e-mail your Forrester Award nomination or send it to:

Jac A.M. Vennix
Professor
Radboud University Nijmegen
Thomas van Aquinostraat 1
PO Box 9108
6500 HK Nijmegen The Netherlands
phone: + 31 24 3611835
fax: + 31 24 3611599
email: j.vennix@fm.ru.nl

NOTE: Nominations must be received no later than March 31st. Further guidance on composing nominations is available in the Winter 2003 and 2004 editions of the System Dynamics Review. Read the published citations for the Award winners in those two editions.

Click here to see a list of the previous winners of the Jay Wright Forrester Award

Dana Meadows Award

The Dana Meadows Award was established in 2001 to honor the late Dana Meadows and encourage the next generation of students in the field of system dynamics. The award is given annually for the best paper by a student presented at the annual System Dynamics Conference. Students can self-nominate any manuscript that has been submitted for inclusion in the conference. The winner receives a cash award of $500 as well as conference registration plus travel expenses (up to a combined maximum of $700). For further information and details on the nominating procedure, please see the conference website or click here.

Previous winners

System Dynamics Applications Award

The System Dynamics Applications Award is presented by the System Dynamics Society as often as once every two years for the best "real world" application of system dynamics conducted within 10 years of the submission deadline. The best application will be based primarily on demonstrated measurable benefit to an organization through the use of system dynamics, and secondarily for new ideas that improve the art of applying system dynamics, or for relating work to existing system dynamics literature and/or other disciplines.

Nominations are invited for the 2009 System Dynamics Society Applications Award.

Criteria for eligible papers include: (1) papers must be full-length and written for an SD-user audience, in the English language in the original or after translation; (2) if previously published, the papers must have been within 7 years of the submission deadline; (3) at least one named author must have been employed at the time of the work by the company or organization whose performance was improved by the SD modeling effort; (4) the paper must not have won or been an announced finalist for a previous award from the System Dynamics Society; and (5) papers may be self-nominated.

The award was last presented in 2007. A citation for the 2007 award winners, Vince Barabba, Chet Huber, Fred Cooke, Nick Pudar, Jim Smith and Mark Paich for the paper "A Multimethod Approach for Creating New Business Models: The General Motors OnStar Project" (Interfaces, 32(1), January-February 2002, pp. 20-34) appears in The System Dynamics Review 24:1 (Spring 2008). Potential nominees are urged to review the citation and the paper as it is an excellent example of both real world impact, and summarizing that impact and the role that the system dynamics model played.

Winners are announced, and a certificate presented, at the annual conference of the System Dynamics Society. The winner may also be invited to deliver a talk on the work, which may subsequently be published in the System Dynamics Review.

Nominations, papers, and supporting information should be sent by 15 April 2009.

For further information, please contact:

James Lyneis
Chair, Applications Award Committee
PO Box 121
Weston, VT 05161 USA
email:  jmlyneis@alum.mit.edu

Previous winners

Other Awards

The society also occasionally recognizes individuals for special reasons. To see the list of these awards and recipients click here.

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