Description
Book SynopsisComputer-based simulation has long been used to project the behavior of systems too complex for analytical calculation.
Trade Review"…researchers and students in organization science and computational organization theory will find it useful…informative reading for professionals and technical management personnel." (
Computing Reviews.com, May 24, 2007)
Table of ContentsForward.
Preface.
Contributors.
1. Introduction and Overview (W. Rouse & K. Boff).
2. Strategic Thinking Via Organizational Simulation (W. Rouse).
3. Using Organizational Simulation to Develop Unprecedented Systems (S. Cross).
4. The Learning Organization and Organizational Simulation (D. Andrews, et al.).
5. Requirements and Approaches For Modeling Individuals Within Organizational Simulations (E. Hudlicka & G. Zacharias).
6. Common Ground and Coordination in Joint Activity (G. Klein, et al.).
7. Modeling Team Performance: The Basic Ingredients and Research Needs (E. Salas, et al.).
8. National Differences in Teamwork (H. Klein & A. McHugh).
9. How Well Did It Work? Measuring Organizational Performance in Simulation Environments (J. MacMillan, et al.).
10. Technical and Conceptual Challenges in Organizational Simulation (L. McGinnis).
11. Narrative Abstraction For Organizational Simulations (J. Murray).
12. Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation of Socio-Technical Systems (A. Shah & A. Pritchett).
13. Executable Models of Decision Making Organizations (A. Levis).
14. Organizational Design and Assessment in Cyber-Space (K. Carley).
15. Artificial Intelligence and Its Applications to Organizational Simulation (S. Cross & S. Fouse).
16. Simulating Humans (I. Essa & A. Bobick).
17. Modeling Crowd Behavior For Military Simulation Applications (R. Loftin, et al.).
18. Application of Immersive Technology For Next Generation Simulation (R. Lindheim & J. Korris).
19. From Viz-Sim to VR to Games: How We Build a Hit Game-Based Simulation (M. Zyda, et al.).
20. Distributed Simulation and the High Level Architecture (R. Fujimoto).
21. Harnessing the Hive: Innovation as a Distributed Function in The Online Game Community (J. Herz).
Author Index.
Subject Index.
