APPLYING MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS TO ORGANIZATIONAL MODELLING IN INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENTS

This paper considers an agent-based approach to organizational modelling within the engineering design domain. The interactions between individual designers within a design teams has a significant impact upon how well a task can be performed, and hence the quality of the resultant product, hence many organisations wish to model, and hence fully understand the process. Using multi-agent social modelling, designers and the design task attributes can be the subject of rules implying how well tasks can be performed given different levels of these attributes. In this paper we discuss the background to the work and the identifications of individual, and team variables.