O-Cubed Modeling and Simulator for Computational Organization Design

  • Authors:

  • Kazunari Ishida;Toshizumi Ohta

  • Affiliations:

  • Excite Japan Co., Ltd., 20F Yebisu Garden Place Tower, 4-20-3, Ebisu, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, 150-6020, Japan. ishida@excitehome.net;The Graduate School of Information Systems, The University of Electro-Communications, 1-5-1 Choufushi, Choufugaoka, Tokyo 182-8585, Japan. ohta@is.uec.ac.jp

  • Venue:
  • Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

This paper discusses the development of O-cubed (operational organization oriented) modeling and a simulator for computational organization design. O-cubed modeling is used to describe an organization model in terms of models of coordination structures, tasks, and agents. The model of a coordination structure can represent not only task decomposition and allocation, but also choices between hierarchical management and autonomous management. The model of a task can represent the workflow within an organization. Using the O-cubed simulator, we can easily describe the models for coordination structure, tasks and agents, so that agents can make decisions concerning task processing and choose coordination structures effectively. In order to show applicability of the modeling and simulator, we describe an O-Cubed model of cooperation in a kitchen of a restaurant. The cooperation is good example to explain organization design, because it contains balanced elements of coordination structures, tasks, and agents. The example show that the organization models described by O-cubed modeling and the simulator are promising models for designing organizations.