Optimizing organizational structure: A hausdorff benchmark for complex social systems

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

Volumn 2178 LNCS, Issue , 2001, Pages 182-195

  Schwaninger, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; SITE SELECTION; SYSTEM THEORY; MANAGEMENT SCIENCE; OPTIMIZATION; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

COMPLEX SOCIAL SYSTEMS; FRACTAL DIMENSIONALITY; OPTIMIZATION THEORY; ORGANIZATION DESIGN; ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGNS; ORGANIZATIONAL PROBLEMS; ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES; SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS;

STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 84887158961     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45654-6_15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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