Modeling and Agent-Based Simulation of Organization in a Stochastic Environment
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Ruan, Sui
Gokhale, Swapna S.
An, Woosun
Pattipati, Krishna R.
Kleinman, David L.
Date
2007-06Metadata
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This paper describes a generic model and agent-based simulation to facilitate the analysis of interplay of
information collection (task identification) and decision making (task execution) processes, as well as the information
flow behaviours in organizations in the face of stochastic mission environments. In these mission environments, task
arrivals are stochastic, the characteristics of tasks are not known a priori, but maybe inferred to a certain degree by
undertaking the information collection or task identification processes. Through the information collection processes,
the organization collects the relevant attributes of tasks to estimate the resources necessary for their execution. This
information is then used to allocate resources effectively for the execution of tasks.
Our model, following structural contingency theory, depicts an organization as consisting of an informationprocessing,
communication and coordination structure that is designed to achieve a specific set of goals, and
is comprised of individuals with different information collecting and task execution capabilities. We develop a
simulation toolkit based on a discrete event simulator, specifically the ANY LOGIC
R simulation package, to
quantify the performance of an organization based on this model. We illustrate our approach using a number of
coordinating organizational structures operating in a stochastic mission environment.
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12th International Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium (ICCRTS), June 19-21, 2007 at the Naval War College, Newport, RI.
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