The fourteenth international conference of the System Dynamics Society will be held July 22-25, 1996, at the Cambridge Center Marriott Hotel in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The conference will feature plenary and parallel sessions, workshops, and tutorials focusing on policy studies based on systems thinking and computer simulation informed by a feedback perspective.

Papers will be presented on the application of systems thinking and system dynamics in corporate and public policy, developments in simulation tools and techniques, advances in the modeling process and group model building, system dynamics contributions to theory building in the social and natural sciences, complex nonlinear dynamic systems, and contributions to system dynamics teaching materials and methods.

George P. Richardson, Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, University at Albany - SUNY, Albany, NY 12222, G.P.Richardson@Albany.edu.

John D. Sterman, Sloan School of Management, M.I.T., 50 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02139, jsterman@mit.edu.