Consensus Simulator for Organisational Structures

Johannes Vorster, Louise Leenen, Louise Leenen

2023

Abstract

In this paper we present a new simulator to investigate consensus within organisations, based on organisational structure, team dynamics, and artefacts. We model agents who can interact with each other and with artefacts, as well as the mathematical models that govern agent behaviour. We show that for a fixed problem size, there is a maximum time within which all agents will reach consensus, independent of number of agents. We present the results from simulating wide ranges of problem sizes and agent group sizes and report on two significant statistics; the time to reach consensus and the effort to reach consensus. The time to reach consensus has implications for project delivery timelines, and the effort relates to project economics.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Vorster J. and Leenen L. (2023). Consensus Simulator for Organisational Structures. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: SIMULTECH; ISBN 978-989-758-668-2, SciTePress, pages 15-26. DOI: 10.5220/0012017400003546

in Bibtex Style

@conference{simultech23,
author={Johannes Vorster and Louise Leenen},
title={Consensus Simulator for Organisational Structures},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: SIMULTECH},
year={2023},
pages={15-26},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012017400003546},
isbn={978-989-758-668-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: SIMULTECH
TI - Consensus Simulator for Organisational Structures
SN - 978-989-758-668-2
AU - Vorster J.
AU - Leenen L.
PY - 2023
SP - 15
EP - 26
DO - 10.5220/0012017400003546
PB - SciTePress