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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 - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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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
• 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)
IFS/MP SOFI
SOFI vs. Systemic SOFI
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.
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