Making Organizational Learning Operational: Implications from Learning Classifier Systems

  • Authors:
  • Keiki Takadama;Takao Terano;Katsunori Shimohara;Koichi Hori;Shinichi Nakasuka

  • Affiliations:
  • ATR Human Information Processing Research Labs. keiki@hip.atr.co.jp;Univ. of Tsukuba. terano@gssm.otsuka.tsukuba.ac.jp;ATR Human Information Processing Research Labs. somohara@hip.atr.co.jp;Univ. of Tokyo. hori@ai.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp;Univ. of Tokyo. nakasuka@ai.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp

  • Venue:
  • Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

The concepts of organizational learning in organization andmanagement science cover a very wide range of organization-relatedactivities in organization. Since socially situated intelligence isone of such activities, this paper makes the concept oforganizational learning operational from the computational viewpointfor investigating socially situated intelligence. In particular, thispaper focuses on the characteristics of multiagent learning as onekind of socially situated intelligence, and analyzes them using fouroperationalized learning mechanisms in organizational learning. Acareful investigation on the characteristics of multiagent learninghas revealed the following implications: (1) there are two levels inthe learning mechanisms for multiagent learning (the individual leveland organizational level) and each mechanism is divided into twotypes (single- and double-loop learning). The integration of thesefour learning mechanisms improves socially situated intelligence; and(2) the following properties support socially situated intelligence:(a) different dimensions in learning mechanisms, (b) interactionamong various levels and types of learning mechanisms in addition tointeraction among agents, and (c) combination of exploration at anindividual level and exploitation at an organizational level.