Effects-Based Design of Robust Organizations

Abstract

Effects-based design of robust organizations seeks to synthesize an organizational structure and its strategies (resource allocation, task scheduling and coordination), to achieve the desired effect(s) in a dynamically changing mission environment. In this paper, we model the dynamic system associated with the mission environment (e.g., environment faced by a joint task force with a military objective or the competitive environment confronted by a consumer electronic company striving to increase its market share) as a finite-state Markov Decision Process (MDP). Using this model, we determine a near-optimal action strategy that specifies which action to take in each state of the MDP model by Monte Carlo control method. The action strategy determines a range of possible missions the organization may face. The range of missions and platform utilization measures, in turn, are used to synthesize a robust organizational structure.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA466015

Entities

People

  • Candra Meirina
  • Feili Yu
  • Haiying Tu
  • Krishna R. Pattipati
  • Sui Ruan

Organizations

  • University of Connecticut

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Command And Control
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Electronic Mail
  • Engineering
  • Monte Carlo Method
  • Nonlinear Programming
  • Operations Research
  • Optimization
  • Organizational Structure
  • Probability
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Simulations
  • Task Forces
  • Workload

Readers

  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics