Designing artificial organisations: lessons from the other side
Friday, 27th May 2005
0930 - 1100
Abstract:
Over time, human organisations arrange their activities in different
ways and it has been argued that computational models are a useful type
of formal model for exploring organisational behaviour. At the same
time we see computer scientists seeking to engineer ever more complex,
distributed and loosely coupled software systems in ways where the
individual sub-systems interact to form an artificial organisation. I
am interested in understanding how lessons from human organisations may
be applied to inform the design/engineering of artificial
organisations. The talk will present some current work - at Melbourne
and elsewhere.
Biosketch:
Liz is in the Department of Information Systems at the University of
Melbourne. For some years her research has focused on reasoning
machinery as may be useful for the design of systems that exhibit
complex collaborative behaviours. She has worked with collaborators in
Psychology and Education on studies involving human reasoning
processes. Industry collaborations have included the Australian
Artificial Intelligence Institute, Agent Oriented Software P/L, the
Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Neuragenix P/L and KESEM
International P/L. Liz's research has been supported by grants from a
variety of sources, including the Australian Research Council.