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SOFI Introduced Into the IFS Model MPPC 2010. The International Futures Model. Large-scale, long-term, structure-based and agent-class-driven global modeling system. Contains demographic, economic, energy, agricultural, socio-political, and environmental subsystems
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The International Futures Model Large-scale, long-term, structure-based and agent-class-driven global modeling system. Contains demographic, economic, energy, agricultural, socio-political, and environmental subsystems 183 countries interacting in the global system. Can show how changing the value of a variable in a country affects other measures in that country, other countries, regions, and the world as a whole. Computes projections for the long term future (to year 2100 Used in teaching, policy analysis, new method development (RAND RDM)
For the Future Introduce Trend Impact Analysis (might require a database of future developments) Enrich the historical database Country data sharing. Create sub-indexes (e.g. Security, Health, Wealth, Intellect, Infrastructure, and Moral/Ethical) Create an annual national SOFI report
IFS/MP SOFI Described in detail in Chapter 2 Now on line at www.ifs.du.edu/ifs.