The development of an agent-based modeling framework for simulating engineering team work

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

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1425-1439

  Crowder, Richard M ^a   Robinson, Mark A ^b   Hughes, Helen P N ^b   Sim, Yee Wai ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITI TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Industrial psychology; multiagent systems; simulation; teamwork

Indexed keywords

AGENT-BASED MODELING; COMPLEX INTERACTION; ENGINEERING ENVIRONMENT; ENGINEERING ORGANIZATIONS; ENGINEERING TEAMS; INDUSTRIAL PSYCHOLOGY; INTEGRATED PRODUCT TEAM; ORGANIZATIONAL DECISION MAKING; PERFORMANCE LEVEL; RESPONSE RATE; SHARED MENTAL MODEL; SIMULATION; TASK LEVELS; TEAM PERFORMANCE; TEAM WORKING; TEAMWORK; TIME SPENT; WORK TASK; WORKING ENVIRONMENT;

COMMUNICATION; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 84867842199     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2012.2199304     Document Type: Article

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