Title :
Adaptivity within an Organizational Development Framework
Author :
Penserini, Loris ; Aldewereld, Huib ; Dignum, Frank ; Dignum, Virginia
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Inf. & Comput. Sci., Univ. Utrecht, Utrecht
Abstract :
The paper provides a study for different kinds of context change that require adaptations of organizational structures through the use of the OperA methodology. This analysis has been conducted within a (simplified) crisis management scenario allowing for a highly dynamic environment;thus, suitable for characterizing and modeling the ways organizations can adapt to such changes.
Keywords :
business data processing; multi-agent systems; organisational aspects; OperA; organizational development framework; organizational structures; Accidents; Cities and towns; Collaboration; Context modeling; Crisis management; Fires; Formal specifications; Helicopters; Multiagent systems; Organizational aspects; Approaches to engineering self- systems; Theories; frameworks and methods for self-* systems;
Conference_Titel :
Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, 2008. SASO '08. Second IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Venezia
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3404-6
DOI :
10.1109/SASO.2008.13
