Computational Organization Design
Papers from the 1994 Spring Symposium
Ingemar Hulthage, Program Chair
Technical Report SS-94-07. Published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California. This technical report is also available in book and CD format.
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Contents
Human-Centered Enterprise Architectures / 1
Miroslav Benda
Coordinating Decision Making in Large Organizations / 6
William P. Birmingham, Joseph G. D'Ambrosio, Tim Darr, and Ed Durfee
Modeling Organizations: Methods Used by Real-World Designers / 22
Bryan Borys
Issues in Developing Simulations for Designing and Evaluating Agile Processes in Organizations / 31
Mark H. Burstein
Evolving Novel Organizational Forms / 35
Kevin Crowston
Task Environment Centered Design of Organizations / 43
Keith Decker and Victor Lesser
Using a Process Handbook to Design Organizational Processes / 50
Chrysanthos Dellarocas, Jintae Lee, Thomas W. Malone, Kevin Crowston and Brian Pentland
Enterprise Engineering: An Information Systems Perspective / 57
Mark S. Fox, Michael Gruninger, Yin Zhan
Using Information Entropy to Model a Wide Variety of Complex Behaviors within Organizations / 64
Rodney Fuller
Notes on Organization Design from the Perspective of AI / 77
Les Gasser
Training and Turnover in Organizations / 81
Natalie Glance, Tad Hogg and Bernardo Huberman
Constructing an Organizational Memory for Software Development / 90
Scott Henninger
Constraint-based Analysis and Design of Organizations / 97
Ingemar Hulthage, Les Gasser, Jon Lieb and Ann Majchrzak
Tools and Techniques for Organizational Process Design / 106
John Idicula
The Virtual Design Team: A Computational Model of Engineering Design Teams / 111
Yan Jin, Raymond E. Levitt, Tore Christiansen and John C. Kunz
Composition-Based Approach to Organization Design: Application to Reactive
Problem-Solving in Manufacturing / 118
Ravi Kalakota and Andrew B. Whinston
Computer Aided Organizational Engineering: State of the Art in Germany and Assessment of the Existing Computer-Based Organization Design
Tools / 123
Harald F.O. v. Kortzfleisch
Toward a Model of Organizational Problem-Solving / 132
Prabhakar Krishnamurthy, Michael Fehling, Paul D. Collopy and Gregg Courand
Organizational Response: Trade-Offs Among Opportunities for Review, Cost and Performance / 139
Zhiang Lin and Kathleen Carley
Cognitive Fallacies in Group Settings / 146
Daniel E. O'Leary
Computational Organizational Design Conference: Generative Organizational Grammars and the Unit Dose System / 155
Gerald R. Salancik and Margaret C. Brindle
Modeling, Integrating, and Enacting the Design of Software Production Processes / 159
Walt Scacchi
OPT: An Approach to Organizational and Process Improvement / 168
Carolyn B. Seaman and Victor R. Basili
A Conceptual Framework For Describing, Simulating and Designing Enterprises, and It’s Formal Codification / 175
Ron Smart and Bohdan Durnota
Modeling and Designing Computational Organizations / 181
Young-pa So and Edmund H. Durfee
Designing Super-Agents / 187
Sarosh Talukdar
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