An agent-based planning approach within the framework of distributed hierarchical enterprise management

Heyne, Dirk; Mönch, Lars

doi:10.1007/s00187-011-0140-9

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“…They implemented a simulation that allowed them to determine that a collaborative environment in which learning is encouraged and tasks are dynamically assigned, employees' capabilities can be increased. Contributions in organizational psychology (Hughes et al, 2012), organizational design (Heyne and Mönch, 2011) and organizational architecture (Rodríguez et al, 2011) we also found.…”

Section: Organizational Behaviormentioning

confidence: 52%

Agent-based simulation in management and organizational studies: a survey

Cruz

Saa

Hurtado

2017

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If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation.*Related content and download information correct at time of download. Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive survey of the literature about the use of agent-based simulation (ABS) in the study of organizational behavior, decision making, and problem-solving. It aims at contributing to the consolidation of ABS as a field of applied research in management and organizational studies. Design/methodology/approach -The authors carried out a non-systematic search in literature published between 2000 and 2016, by using the keyword "agent-based" to search through Scopus' business, management and accounting database. Additional search criteria were devised using the papers' keywords and the categories defined by the divisions and interest groups of the Academy of Management. The authors found 181 articles for this survey.Findings -The survey shows that ABS provides a robust and rigorous framework to elaborate descriptions, explanations, predictions and theories about organizations and their processes as well as develop tools that support strategic and operational decision making and problem-solving. The authors show that the areas that report the highest number of applications are operations and logistics (37 percent), marketing (17 percent) and organizational behavior (14 percent). Originality/value -The paper illustrates the increasingly prominent role of ABS in fields such as organizational behavior, strategy, human resources, marketing and logistics. To-date, this is the most complete survey about ABS in all management areas.

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Section: Organizational Behaviormentioning

confidence: 52%

Agent-based simulation in management and organizational studies: a survey

Cruz

Saa

Hurtado

2017

EJMBE

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“…When looking at the methods or techniques to express and construct human actors’ intents that pass quality assessment level 1, most of the studies provide theories with experiments, except from Bykov et al [15], who presents the results from an industrial case study. The dominant topic among the included papers is decision making and multi‐criteria analysis, in terms of decision support system (DSS) for process improvement, realised with the help of multi‐agent systems (MASs) [15, 26] that could support distributed planning [27] or handle heterogeneous information [21]. Castro‐Schez et al [20] use fuzzy logic to acquire information from a human actor in the multi‐criteria decision analysis scenario.…”

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“…The possibility to support a decision-making process in a complex choice situation with multiple management objectives and multiple strategies that are under consideration supports RQ1.1. [27] 1.1 Theory combined with experiment: Presents a framework for distributed planning in hierarchical structures with the help of a MAS and Multi-Decision Criteria Analyses based on a model approach. Requirements for a DSS based on this concept are proposed.…”

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“…Since Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Rules is business agnostic, semantics and ontologies are needed to give meaning to the policies and rules: 'We can summarise that currently, there is no approach that deals with the distributed nature and the existing information asymmetry of the enterprise management domain appropriately and allows for some support by means of application systems.' [27]. 'Several factors hinder communication, among which are the closed nature of the individual projects and terminological differences.'…”

Section: Semanticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Uschold et al 1997) is an appropriate starting point.' [27]. 'We thus emphasise the point that as autonomic management is essentially human governance resulting in the constraint of adaptive behaviour using policies, we must address the semantics of both adaptive networks and adaptive application software in relating such policies to the expected human experience.…”

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Systematic literature review on intent‐driven systems

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An intent-driven system is a compositional system of human actors and machine actors. The aim of intent-driven systems is to capture stakeholders' intents and transform these into a form that enables computer processing of the intents. Only then are different machine actors able to negotiate with each other on behalf of their respective stakeholders and their intents, and suggest a mutually beneficial collaboration. The aim is to find existing methods/techniques which could be used as building blocks to construct intent-driven systems. This is used to provide insight into what is needed to enable intent-driven systems with the help of these methods/techniques. As a part of a design science study, a Systematic Literature Review is conducted. The existences of methods/techniques which can be used as building blocks to construct intent-driven systems exist in the literature. How these methods/techniques can interact in order to enable realisations of intent-driven systems is not evident in the existing literature. The synthesis shows a need for further research regarding the semantic interchange of information, actor interaction in intent-driven systems, and the governance of intent-driven systems.

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