Socially inspired decision making tools: from the economy to management engineering
Cesáreo Rodríguez Hernández, Adolfo López‐Paredes, Javier Pajares, Marta Posadas · Hispana · 2008
“For a few minutes, forget our profession's usual focus on mostly technical, highly specific problems, and consider a new answer to an old question: how can we design organizations that work well? No, this isn't about tools for planning and budgeting, or models of how an organization's objectives can be optimally attained. The design of the organization itself is the subject of a new spin-off field from mainstream OR/MS: computational and mathematical organization theory (CMOT). Since this launch of CMOT as an offspring from TIMS and OSRA, agent based simulation (ABMS) has established itself as a useful approach to solve complex problems in many fields: project management, supply chain models, natural resources management and personal and impersonal exchange organization (Edmonds et al 2007, Lopez et al 2008). If one surveys the past CIO Proceedings, it is clear that ABMS is far from being a popular approach to solve problems in “Ingenieria de Organizacion”. The intention of this paper is to help in filling the gap between ADINGOR’s culture and the new movement in OR decision tools: CMOT (ABM).