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An Agent-Based Framework for Active Multi-level Modeling of Organizations

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Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling (SBP-BRiMS 2016)

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Agent-based models of organizations have traditionally had a single level of agency, whether at the individual or organizational level, but many interesting organizational phenomena, including organizational resilience and turnover, involve agency at multiple organizational levels. We propose an extensible multi-modeling framework, realized in software, to model these phenomena and many more. Two applications will be given to demonstrate the framework’s versatility.

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  1. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Geoffrey P. Morgan & Kathleen M. Carley

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  1. University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, USA

    Kevin S. Xu

  2. Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA

    David Reitter

  3. Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA

    Dongwon Lee

  4. University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

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Morgan, G.P., Carley, K.M. (2016). An Agent-Based Framework for Active Multi-level Modeling of Organizations. In: Xu, K., Reitter, D., Lee, D., Osgood, N. (eds) Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling. SBP-BRiMS 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9708. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39931-7_26

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