Prioritizing and selecting KPIs: An AHP-based model to evaluate the alignments among strategy business model and performance metrics

Organizational Compliance: An agent-based model for designing and evaluating organizational interactions

The motivation of this research comes from the need of devising and evaluating solutions to achieving organizational compliance, which is an important factor in ensuring the success of business operations and the safety of business environments. Using normative multi-agent systems as the basis of conceptual design, the OperA+ framework presented...

Reasoning with Agent Preferences in Normative Multi-agent Systems (Extended Abstract)

Contextualized institutions in virtual organizations

Within a virtual organization, more than one institution might be involved in the regulation of actors’ behavior. Each institution specifies a set of norms covering a specific aspect of the problem domain with a governance scope defining its remit. Together, they govern the participants and reflect the objectives of the organization. With actors...

Agent-based Multi-organizational Interaction Design: A Case Study of the Dutch Railway System

In multi-organizational alliances, inter- and intraorganizational interactions are performed in dynamic environments towards the cooperative goals. To adapt to such dynamics, not only should organizational design provide sufficient representation of organizational requirements, but also provide control mechanisms to switch between different...

Institutional Relationships Promoting the Development of Chinese Green Industry

Every five years, China develops a long-term plan called Five Year Plan. In recent fifteen years, China’s rapid economic development with environmental issues is becoming increasingly important. Until China’s 12th Five Year plan in 2010, it explicitly pointed out to promote green energy and develop energy-efficient economy to keep the country’s...

Norm Contextualization (extended abstract)

A context-aware normative structure in MAS

Norm contextualization

Agents interact with each other within a set of norms, which is expressed at different levels of abstraction that capture different con- texts and operationalizations. Current normative frameworks deal with norm operationalization, yet few consider the contextual aspects of norms. Moreover, most frameworks are based on the independent...

A Context-aware Normative Structure in MAS (extended abstract)

Contextualized Institutions in Virtual Organizations (abstract)

An Agent Based Inter-organizational Collaboration Framework: OperA+ (extended abstract)

Time Duration of Decision-Making Process: A case analysis on Chinese Large infrastructure project

China is changing fast. Large infrastructure and construction projects turned China into the world’s largest importer of heavy construction equipment. Many projects are built in a very short period of time. Most observations outside of China are referred to fast prestigious projects such as Beijing Olympics subway, Beijing International Airport...