Adaptive, agile approaches to organizational architecture utilizing agent technology

Decision Sciences

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 483-511

  Ottaway, Thomas A ^a   Burns, James R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed artificial intelligence; Information reduction; Intelligent agents; Management systems; Simulation; Slack; Structural self design

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031322108     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5915.1997.tb01320.x     Document Type: Article

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