Title :
Agent-Based Multi-organizational Interaction Design: A Case Study of the Dutch Railway System
Author :
Jie Jiang ; Huisman, B. ; Dignum, V.
Author_Institution :
Delft Univ. of Technol., Delft, Netherlands
Abstract :
In multi-organizational alliances, inter- and intra-organizational interactions are performed in dynamic environments towards the cooperative goals. To adapt to such dynamics, not only should organizational design provide sufficient representation of organizational requirements, but also provide control mechanisms to switch between different contextual states as a response to an external change. OperA+, as an agent-based organization modeling framework, on the one hand, inherits the advantages of describing and analyzing complex relations between entities, and on the other hand, supports design, analysis and communication of organizational knowledge at multiple levels of abstraction in multiple contexts. This paper aims at a demonstration of OperA+ for an analysis and design study of the Dutch railway system in the domain of train maintenance which is expecting an organization evolution from the current system to a new design.
Keywords :
maintenance engineering; multi-agent systems; organisational aspects; railway industry; Dutch railway system; OperA+ framework; abstraction level; agent-based multiorganizational interaction design; control mechanism; cooperative goal; interorganizational interaction; intra-organizational interaction; knowledge analysis; knowledge communication; knowledge design; multiorganizational alliance; organization evolution; train maintenance; condition-based maintenance; contextual behavior; multi-agent system; organizational design; railway system;
Conference_Titel :
Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT), 2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on
Conference_Location :
Macau
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-6057-9
DOI :
10.1109/WI-IAT.2012.41