APPLYING MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS TO ORGANIZATIONAL MODELLING IN INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENTS

M. C. Romero, R. M. Crowder, Y. W. Sim, T. R. Payne

2008

Abstract

This paper considers an agent-based approach to organizational modelling within the engineering design domain. The interactions between individual designers within a design teams has a significant impact upon how well a task can be performed, and hence the quality of the resultant product, hence many organisations wish to model, and hence fully understand the process. Using multi-agent social modelling, designers and the design task attributes can be the subject of rules implying how well tasks can be performed given different levels of these attributes. In this paper we discuss the background to the work and the identifications of individual, and team variables.

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C. Romero M., M. Crowder R., W. Sim Y. and R. Payne T. (2008). APPLYING MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS TO ORGANIZATIONAL MODELLING IN INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENTS . In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8111-37-1, pages 181-186. DOI: 10.5220/0001683101810186


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis08,
author={M. C. Romero and R. M. Crowder and Y. W. Sim and T. R. Payne},
title={APPLYING MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS TO ORGANIZATIONAL MODELLING IN INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENTS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,},
year={2008},
pages={181-186},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001683101810186},
isbn={978-989-8111-37-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,
TI - APPLYING MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS TO ORGANIZATIONAL MODELLING IN INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENTS
SN - 978-989-8111-37-1
AU - C. Romero M.
AU - M. Crowder R.
AU - W. Sim Y.
AU - R. Payne T.
PY - 2008
SP - 181
EP - 186
DO - 10.5220/0001683101810186