Decisionmaking Organizations with Acyclical Information Structures.

Abstract

An analytical model of a team of well-trained human decisionmakers executing a well-defined decisionmaking task is presented. Each team member is described by a two-stage model consisting of a situation assessment and a response selection stage. An information theoretic framework is used in which bounded rationality is modeled as a constraint on the total rate of internal processing by each decisionmaker. Optimizing and satisfying strategies are derived and their properties analyzed in terms of organizational performance and individual workload. The results are applied to the analysis and evaluation of two three-person organizational designs.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1982
Accession Number
ADA121185

Entities

People

  • Alexander H. Levis
  • Kevin L. Boettcher

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Algorithms
  • Boundaries
  • Control Systems
  • Environment
  • Finite Alphabet
  • Game Theory
  • Information Processing
  • Massachusetts
  • Organizational Structure
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions
  • Random Variables
  • Scientific Research
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Two Dimensional
  • Workload

Readers

  • Operations Research
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.