Trends, implications and overview of complex organizations with a focus on the aerospace industry

2nd IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics, INDIN'04

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 385-390

  Gabbai, Jonathan M E ^a,b   Wright, W Andy ^a,c   Allinson, Nigel M ^a,d  

^a IEEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c BAE SYSTEMS   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aerospace industry; Complex systems; Emergence; Multi agent systems; Organizational structure

Indexed keywords

EMERGENCE; ORGANIZATIONAL COMPLEXITY; ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE;

LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; TECHNOLOGY;

AEROSPACE INDUSTRY;

EID: 28444472090     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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