Rouse / Boff Organizational Simulation

1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-471-73943-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 688 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Wiley Series in Systems Engineering and Management

From modeling and simulation to games and entertainment
With contributions from leaders in systems and organizationalmodeling, behavioral and social sciences, computing andvisualization, and gaming and entertainment, OrganizationalSimulation both articulates the grand vision of immersiveenvironments and shows, in detail, how to realize it. This bookoffers unparalleled insight into the cutting edge of the field,since it was written by those who actually researched, designed,developed, deployed, marketed, sold, and critiqued today's bestorganizational simulations.
The coverage is divided into four sections:
* Introduction outlines the need for organizational simulation tosupport strategic thinking, design of unprecedented systems, andorganizational learning, including the functionality and technologyrequired to enable this support
* Behaviors covers the state of knowledge of individual, group, andteam behaviors and performance, how performance can best besupported, how performance is affected by national differences, andhow organizational performance can best be measured
* Modeling describes the latest approaches to modeling andsimulating people, groups, teams, and organizations, as well asnarrative contexts and organizational environments within whichthese entities act, drawing from a rich set of modeling methods andtools
* Simulations and Games illustrates a wide range of fieldedsimulations, games, and entertainment, including the methods andtools employed for designing, developing, deploying, and evaluatingthese systems, as well as the social implications for theassociated communities that have emerged
Addressing all levels of organizational simulation architecturewith theories and applications, and enabling technologies for each,Organizational Simulation offers students and professionals thepremier reference and practical toolbox for this dynamic field.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rouse, William B.

Boff, Kenneth R.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Forward.
Preface.
Contributors.
1. Introduction and Overview (W. Rouse & K. Boff).
2. Strategic Thinking Via Organizational Simulation (W.Rouse).
3. Using Organizational Simulation to Develop UnprecedentedSystems (S. Cross).
4. The Learning Organization and Organizational Simulation (D.Andrews, et al.).
5. Requirements and Approaches For Modeling Individuals WithinOrganizational Simulations (E. Hudlicka &G. Zacharias).
6. Common Ground and Coordination in Joint Activity (G. Klein,et al.).
7. Modeling Team Performance: The Basic Ingredients andResearch Needs (E. Salas, et al.).
8. National Differences in Teamwork (H. Klein & A.McHugh).
9. How Well Did It Work? Measuring Organizational Performance inSimulation Environments (J. MacMillan, et al.).
10. Technical and Conceptual Challenges in OrganizationalSimulation (L. McGinnis).
11. Narrative Abstraction For Organizational Simulations (J.Murray).
12. Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation of Socio-TechnicalSystems (A. Shah & A. Pritchett).
13. Executable Models of Decision Making Organizations (A.Levis).
14. Organizational Design and Assessment in Cyber-Space (K.Carley).
15. Artificial Intelligence and Its Applications toOrganizational Simulation (S. Cross & S. Fouse).
16. Simulating Humans (I. Essa & A. Bobick).
17. Modeling Crowd Behavior For Military Simulation Applications(R. Loftin, et al.).
18. Application of Immersive Technology For Next GenerationSimulation (R. Lindheim & J. Korris).
19. From Viz-Sim to VR to Games: How We Build a Hit Game-BasedSimulation (M. Zyda, et al.).
20. Distributed Simulation and the High Level Architecture (R.Fujimoto).
21. Harnessing the Hive: Innovation as a Distributed Function inThe Online Game Community (J. Herz).
Author Index.
Subject Index.

Über Autor(innen)

WILLIAM B. ROUSE, PhD, is Executive Director of theTennenbaum Institute at Georgia Tech and a professor in the Collegeof Computing and the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering.Dr. Rouse has over thirty years of experience in the field ofindividual and organizational performance, decision supportsystems, and information systems. He has written hundreds ofarticles and book chapters, and has authored several Wiley books,including Essential Challenges of Strategic Management, and is acoeditor of Handbook of Systems Engineering and Management. He is aFellow of IEEE, INFORMS, and HFES, as well as a member of theNational Academy of Engineering.
KENNETH R. BOFF, PhD, is a Chief Scientist of the HumanEffectiveness Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory,headquartered at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, in Dayton, Ohio.His research includes human engineering of complex systems,training, safety, protection, and deployment logistics. He hasauthored numerous articles and book chapters, and has editedseveral books. He is a founder and technical director of theDepartment of Defense Human System Information Analysis Center, andis a founding member and former chair of the DoD RelianceHuman-Systems Interface Technology Panel.