Migration of Control in Decision Making Organizations

Abstract

In a distributed decision making organization supported by information processing and decision aiding systems, it is not always apparent whose decision affects the outcome the most. Often, control migrates away from the designated organization member in unexpected ways depending on the decisions of individual decision makers, on the structure of the organization, and on its operating procedures. A mathematical formulation on the concept of migration of control and of regions of dominance is given; the model and the computational procedure are illustrated by two simple examples. The point is made that the introduction of technologies that allow distributed decision making bring into focus dynamic phenomena that need novel approaches and new concepts to describe them. Keywords: Petri net models.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1989
Accession Number
ADA209521

Entities

People

  • Alexander H. Levis
  • Sabina L. Skulsky

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Algorithms
  • Alphabets
  • Coefficients
  • Cognition
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Contracts
  • Data Processing
  • Decision Support Systems
  • Information Processing
  • Military Research
  • Organizational Structure
  • Petri Nets
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions
  • Security

Readers

  • Coastal and Marine Engineering/Sediment Transport/Hydraulic Engineering
  • Control Systems Engineering.
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.