Title :
Evolutionary system dynamics in enterprise modeling
Author :
Lim, See Yew ; Goh, Victor Yuan Sheng
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Mech., Temasek Polytech., Singapore
Abstract :
System dynamics in the domain of business infrastructure analysis has been the subject of repeated speculative investigation by academic and enterprise development practitioners. Information technology has been guiding mankind through his evolution, showing when to plough and to harvest new products and methodologies. The integration of the information highway and databases manifested itself into a tangible entity that is central in enterprise management. The author advocates the interplay between the observations of the way the business world works and existing pre-eminent model theories with an attempt to provide an efficient enterprise management behavior model. The model presented is built on the concept of evolutionary intelligent agents. These entities differ from the conventional agents in the sense that they are produced from a pool of individual agents. The model with its assortment of agents will work on the concomitant paths pertaining to product development and production aiming to provide a self organizing environment within a manufacturing firm
Keywords :
commerce; computer aided production planning; information technology; product development; production control; software agents; business infrastructure; databases; enterprise management; enterprise modeling; evolutionary intelligent agents; evolutionary system dynamics; information highway; manufacturing firm; product development; production control; self organization; Companies; Costs; Entropy; Information technology; Investments; Marketing and sales; Mechatronics; Production; Thermodynamics; Virtual manufacturing;
Conference_Titel :
Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1997. Computational Cybernetics and Simulation., 1997 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Orlando, FL
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4053-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICSMC.1997.635389