Title :
Distributed decision making in organizations
Author_Institution :
Manuf. Eng. Program, California Univ., Los Angeles, CA, USA
Abstract :
Problems and concepts for understanding how expert systems can be thought about, designed, and used in organized activity are discussed. Considerations and concepts from distributed artificial intelligence are explained, noting the connection with research in the computer support of organized activity. The author´s recent research in two areas is outlined. They are cooperation in a vertical structure of an organizational hierarchy and horizontal cooperation among a team of agents with different specializations, solving a joint problem
Keywords :
decision support systems; expert systems; problem solving; AI; DSS; decision support systems; distributed artificial intelligence; distributed decision making; expert systems; horizontal cooperation; joint problem solving; organizational hierarchy; Aircraft; Artificial intelligence; Bonding; Design engineering; Distributed decision making; Expert systems; Humans; Problem-solving; Pulp manufacturing; Space technology;
Conference_Titel :
Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 1990. Conference Proceedings., IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-87942-597-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICSMC.1990.142254
