Coordination in Organizations with Decision Support Systems
Abstract
A methodology to model, analyze, and evaluate coordination in organizations with decision support systems is presented. The issue of inconsistency of information and synchronization are emphasized. Predicate Transition Nets are used as the basic technique for representing organizational structures and for characterizing the coordination of processes. Protocols of interaction are modeled by transitions for which the rule of enablement is that the decisionmakers, when interacting, must refer to the same state of the environment. Two measures of coordination are then introduced: information consistency and synchronization. These measures are defined on the basis of the attributes of the tokens belonging to the input places of transitions modeling interactions. A recently developed simulation system for Predicate Transition Nets is used for investigating, through an example, the dynamics of such organizations and for analyzing how a decision support system can alter the coordination in an organization. Keywords: Command and control systems, Decision making, C3(Command Control and Communications).
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 01, 1988
- Accession Number
- ADA197951
Entities
People
- Alexander H. Levis
- Jean-louis M. Grevet
Organizations
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology