Simulating Organizational Decision-Making Using a Cognitively Realistic Agent Model

Ron Sun () and Isaac Naveh ()
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Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 2004, vol. 7, issue 3, 5

Abstract: Most of the work in agent-based social simulation has assumed highly simplified agent models, with little attention being paid to the details of individual cognition. Here, in an effort to counteract that trend, we substitute a realistic cognitive agent model (CLARION) for the simpler models previously used in an organizational design task. On that basis, an exploration is made of the interaction between the cognitive parameters that govern individual agents, the placement of agents in different organizational structures, and the performance of the organization. It is suggested that the two disciplines, cognitive modeling and social simulation, which have so far been pursued in relative isolation from each other, can be profitably integrated.

Keywords: Cognition; Cognitive Architecture; Cognitive Modeling; Classification Decision Making (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004-06-30
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