Human Organizations as Distributed Intelligence Systems,

Abstract

Human decision making organizations can serve as a paradigm for distributed intelligence systems. Elements of a mathematical theory of organizations are presented and used to analyze the behavior of organizations that have to meet stringent requirements with constraints on the cognitive and physical resources available. It is shown how the introduction of decision support systems to aid individual decisionmakers can affect in unforeseen ways system performance.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1988
Accession Number
ADA192665

Entities

People

  • Alexander H. Levis

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Behavior And Behavior Mechanisms
  • Cognition
  • Cognitive Workload
  • Command And Control
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Science
  • Data Fusion
  • Decision Support Systems
  • Expert Systems
  • Information Processing
  • Intelligent Systems
  • Organization Theory
  • Petri Nets
  • Probability
  • Psychology
  • Theoretical Computer Science

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.