- Title
- Coordination in adaptive organisations : Extending shared plans with knowledge cultivation
- Creator
- Keogh, Kathleen; Sonenberg, Liz; Smith, Wally
- Date
- 2009
- Type
- Text; Conference paper
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/56380
- Identifier
- vital:2286
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02377-4_6
- Identifier
- ISBN:9783642023767
- Abstract
- Agent-based simulation can be used to investigate behavioural requirements, capabilities and strategies that might be helpful in complex, dynamic and adaptive situations, and can be used in training scenarios. In this paper, we study the requirements of coordination in complex unfolding scenarios in which agents may come and go and where there is a dynamic organisational structure. This is a step on the way to developing a simulation framework that can be part of a training system in the domain of emergency management. We argue the need for an extension to the SharedPlans formalism required to support the sharing of knowledge about a dynamically unfolding situation, specifically: who is in the team? and who holds relevant knowledge? Our rationale for such an extension is presented based on a prior case study of a railway accident and a further analysis of the coordination and communication activities amongst the disaster management team during its recovery. We conclude that in addition to the obligations imposed by the standard SharedPlans framework, agents in complex unfolding scenarios also need knowledge cultivation processes to reason about the dynamic organisational structure and the changing world state. We briefly express the requirements of knowledge cultivation as obligations that could be imposed on agents. We argue that in order to facilitate appropriate knowledge cultivation, agents need access to explicit models of organisational knowledge. This knowledge encapsulates the relational structure of the team, along with shared beliefs, goals and plans. We briefly present a formal representation of this model in order to clearly identify the rich information needed in an adaptive organisation. © 2009 Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
- Publisher
- Estoril : Springer
- Relation
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Estoril : 13th May 2008 Vol. 5368 LNAI, p. 90-107
- Rights
- Copyright Springer
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Agent based simulation; Communication activities; Cultivation process; Disaster management; Emergency management; Explicit models; Formal representations; Organisational knowledge; Organisational structure; Relational structures; Simulation framework; Training scenario; Training systems; Coordination reactions; Disaster prevention; Formal logic; Railroad accidents; Railroad transportation; Simulators; Multi-agent systems
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