An Organizational Self-Design Model for Organizational Change
Young-pa So, Edmund H. Durfee · 1993
Organizational Self-Design (OSD) is a model of Organizational Change from the perspective of Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI). We present a topdown model of OSD in the context of Cooperative Distributed Problem Solving (CDPS). We emphasize the task environment as an important factor in determining an effective organizational structure. We provide an example of an analytical model of organization performance for an addition task using tree structure organizations, and show how such model can be used to endow a Distributed Network Mangement system with the capability to adapt to changing task environments via OSD. Introduction Our research is directed toward finding out the factors that affect the collective performance of a set of communicating autonomous agents engaged in cooperative problem solving, and our ultimate goal is to develop a scientific understanding of the cooperative process that can be embodied in computational mechanisms. Furthermore, because cooperating agent...