This paper emphasizes the importance of considering the mechanisms that coordinate economic transactions in a decentralized economy, namely the role played by a self-organizing network of entrepreneurial trading firms, for theories aimed at guiding macroeconomic policy. We review a research program that aims to understand how, and how well, trading activities are coordinated in various circumst...

In this paper, we present the knowledge-based system rosa working on spatial and functional organizations in agriculture. The reasoning in rosa combines hierarchical classification, case-based reasoning, and qualitative spatial reasoning. The goal of the system is twofold: formalizing and building a case base holding on farm spatial and functional organizations, and helping the analysis of new ...

There has been for several years a growing interest in defining new access control models and administration facilities for these models. Several models have observed that only structuring the model using the concept of roles as in RBAC is not sufficient to administer decentralized enterprises. These models have suggested to consider new concepts such as organization (as in OrBAC) or domain (as...

the present study aimed to study guidelines for jihad-e-keshavarzi organization of gilan province to become learning organization through strengthening organizational citizenship behavior and attitudes of employees. a questionnaire based survey was applied to 159 employees estimated through stratified random sampling. the face and content validity of questionnaire was confirmed by panel of expe...

The development team chosen for this pilot is responsible for a widely-used mainframe software product called CA SYSVIEW® Performance Management, an intuitive tool for proactive management and real-time monitoring of z/OS environments. By analyzing a vast array of performance metrics, CA SYSVIEW can help organizations identify and resolve problems quickly. Companies are highly dependent on the ...

In this paper we explore the relationship between selforganization of multiagent systems and adjustable autonomy in intelligent agents. To discuss multiagent organizations, we introduce the Framework for selfOrganization and Robustness in Multiagent systems (FORM). This framework uses delegation as the central concept to define organizational relationships in taskassignment multiagent systems. ...

A key challenge in Grid computing is the achievement of efficient and self-organized management of the Virtual Organizations composing the system. Grids are often very heterogeneous, incorporating high dynamicity and unpredictability. Introducing higher levels of adaptation and learning in the coordination protocols may help coping with complexity. We provide a solution based on a self-organize...

We investigate approaches for the automated configuration of distributed Grid services. In particular, we implement several approaches for combining configuration information specified by a group of collaborating institutions (a Virtual Organization or VO) with local configuration parameters. We describe our implementation of merging strategies for configuring the Globus Replica Location Servic...