Modelling Organisations As Electronic Institutions

Abstract

In recent times, artificial intelligence and social science have paid closer attention to computational modelling and analysis of organizations. The Multi agent systems communi ty in particular has found organizations to be useful for the design of agent systems in which the regulation of the interaction among autonomous agents is possible. Similarly, social science organizational research has found computational mo dels useful fo r analysis of structure and dynamics of real organizations. Motivated by this growing interest which is hinged on the importance of comp utational models for organizations, this paper presents the state of the art approaches to computational models for orga nizations with emphasis on electronic institutions.