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The concept of organization has been studied in sciences such as social science and economics, but recently also in artificial intelligence [Furtado 2005, Giorgini 2004, and McCallum 2005]. With the desire to analyze and design more complex systems consisting of larger numbers of agents (e.g., in nature, society, or software), the need arises for a concept of higher abstraction than the concept agent. To this end, organizational modeling is becoming a practiced stage in the analysis and design of multi-agent systems, hereby taking into consideration the environment of the organization. An environment can have a high degree of variability which might require organizations to adapt to the environment’s dynamics, to ensure a continuous proper functioning of the organization. Hence, such change processes are a crucial function of the organization and should be part of the organizational model.
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Hoogendoorn, M., Schut, M.C., Treur, J. (2010). Modeling the Dynamics of Task Allocation and Specialization in Honeybee Societies. In: Minai, A., Braha, D., Bar-Yam, Y. (eds) Unifying Themes in Complex Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85081-6_30
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