A novel congruent organizational design methodology using group technology and a nested genetic algorithm

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 5-18

  Yu, Feili ^a   Tu, Fang ^a,b   Pattipati, Krishna R ^a  

^a University of Connecticut   (United States)

^b QUALTECH SYSTEMS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Command and control (C2); Decision maker (DM); Group technology (GT); Inner loop GA (ILG); Nested genetic algorithm (NGA); Outer loop GA (OLG); Task accuracy significance (TAS)

Indexed keywords

COMMAND AND CONTROL SYSTEMS; DECISION MAKING; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

CONGRUENT ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN; INNER LOOP GENETIC ALGORITHM (ILG); NESTED GENETIC ALGORITHM (NGA); OUTER LOOP GENETIC ALGORITHM (OLG); TASK ACCURACY SIGNIFICANCE (TAS);

GROUP TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 30444448506     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2006.859106     Document Type: Article

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