Exploring congruence between organizational structure and task performance: A simulation approach

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3913 LNAI, Issue , 2006, Pages 213-230

  Dignum, Frank ^a   Dignum, Virginia ^a   Sonenberg, Liz ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 33746104516     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11775331_15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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