Organizational Simulation (Wiley Series in Systems by William B. Rouse, Kenneth R. Boff

By William B. Rouse, Kenneth R. Boff

From modeling and simulation to video games and entertainmentWith contributions from leaders in structures and organizational modeling, behavioral and social sciences, computing and visualization, and gaming and leisure, Organizational Simulation either articulates the grand imaginative and prescient of immersive environments and indicates, intimately, tips to understand it. This publication deals remarkable perception into the innovative of the sector, because it was once written by way of those that truly researched, designed, built, deployed, advertised, bought, and critiqued modern-day top organizational simulations.The assurance is split into 4 sections:* creation outlines the necessity for organizational simulation to aid strategic considering, layout of remarkable structures, and organizational studying, together with the performance and know-how required to let this aid* Behaviors covers the nation of data of person, team, and workforce behaviors and function, how functionality can most sensible be supported, how functionality is suffering from nationwide changes, and the way organizational functionality can most sensible be measured* Modeling describes the most recent methods to modeling and simulating humans, teams, groups, and firms, in addition to narrative contexts and organizational environments during which those entities act, drawing from a wealthy set of modeling equipment and instruments* Simulations and video games illustrates quite a lot of fielded simulations, video games, and leisure, together with the equipment and instruments hired for designing, constructing, deploying, and comparing those platforms, in addition to the social implications for the linked groups that experience emergedAddressing all degrees of organizational simulation structure with theories and purposes, and allowing applied sciences for every, Organizational Simulation deals scholars and pros the most effective reference and sensible toolbox for this dynamic box.

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Within this line of research she is currently investigating the impact of stress, leadership, and multi-cultural teams. She has presented at numerous peer-reviewed conferences, has published in several scientific journals and books on the topics of teams and team training, and serves as an ad-hoc reviewer for the Human Factors journal and Quality Safety in Health Care. D. in Industrial/ Organizational Psychology from George Mason University. Contributors xxix Kathleen M. Carley is Professor of Computation, Organizations and Society at the Institute for Software Research International at Carnegie Mellon University.

Some of the chapters pursue one layer in depth while others report on a wealth of efforts to create, evaluate, and deploy organizational simulations. The latter efforts inevitably address many, if not all, of the layers of the architecture. Perspectives on Organizational Simulation The authors of the chapters represent a wide range of perspectives on organizational simulation. Many authors have strong roots in the modeling and simulation community, often from engineering and computing. They build upon a rich legacy of mathematics, models, methods, and tools.

The maturation of this technology will prove invaluable as a visualization test bed for understanding, designing and evaluating complex organizational architectures for a variety of industrial and military applications in operations, logistics and manufacturing. Users will be able to acquire perspectives on individual and emergent behaviors and performance and their implications for design, acquisition, doctrine and, in general, organizational transformation. Organizational simulation can enable teams to rapidly discover, experience, and train in new contexts while simultaneously synthesizing the operational doctrine, as well as training and aiding systems, needed to support the team.

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