U.S.-Bulgarian Workshop: Use of Information Technologies in Modeling the Bulgarian Firm in Transition from a Planned to a Free Market Economy, May 2002

这是一个美国-保加利亚的研讨会，内容是如何使用信息技术来模拟保加利亚公司从计划经济向自由市场经济的转型。研讨会将在保加利亚举行。研讨会的联合组织者是休斯顿市中心大学的Madeline Johnson博士和Richard Alo博士，以及保加利亚Tsenov经济学院的尼古拉·扬科夫博士。研讨会的目标是将来自美国和保加利亚的教职员工、学生和其他专家聚集在一起，讨论和发展联合研究，以开发一家保加利亚公司从计划经济向自由市场经济转型的战略和战术决策模拟。模拟将支持有关战略和战术过程的研究、培训和教育，这些过程将加快在自由市场经济中成功运作所需的转型。讲习班的目标是(A)确定要在模拟中建模的结构和(B)确定要在模拟中建模的结构之间的关系。研讨会的成果将包括数据收集、模型构建和软件工程，以解释模拟。这一经济学研讨会实现了将美国和中东欧的顶尖专家聚集在一起，在平等、互惠和互利的基础上，在共同利益和能力强的领域结合互补努力和能力的计划目标。

This is a US-Bulgarian workshop on the use of information technologies in modeling the Bulgarian firm in transition from a planned to a free market economy. The workshop will be held in Bulgaria. The co-organizers of the workshop are Drs. Madeline Johnson and Richard Alo from the University of Houston-Downtown and Dr. Nikola Yankov from the Tsenov Academy of Economics in Bulgaria.The goal of the workshop is to bring together faculty, students and other experts from the U.S. and Bulgaria to discuss and develop joint research toward the development of a strategic and tactical decision-making simulation of a Bulgarian firm in transition from operating in a planned economy to a free market economy. The simulation will support research, training and education on the strategic and tactical processes that will speed the transformation required to operate successfully in a free market economy. The objectives of the workshop are (a) the identification of the constructs to be modeled in the simulation and (b) the identification of the relationships among the constructs to be modeled in the simulation. The outcomes of the workshop will include data collection, model building, and software engineering to explicate the simulation. This workshop in economics fulfills the program objectives of bringing together leading experts in the U.S. and Central/Eastern Europe to combine complementary efforts and capabilities in areas of strong mutual interest and competence on the basis of equality, reciprocity, and mutuality of benefit.