Il-Chul Moon and Kathleen M. Carley, Testing the Robustness of Team Structures with Social Simulation, World Congress on Social Simulation (WCSS 2006), Kyoto, Japan, Aug 21-25, 2006

Abstract

Organizational structure design has been one of major topics in management, social science, operation research, etc. In this paper, we used a meta-matrix method and a simulation to test the robustness of team structures. We examined five top structures and five bottom structures form America’s Army on-line game. Because we have prior knowledge about the robustness of the structures, we compare the performance measures from the simulations to the prior knowledge. According to our result, the performance measures can classify the top structures and the bottom structures. Furthermore, the classification based on the measures becomes clearer as simulation proceeds. After the simulation result analysis, we discuss possible improvements of this approach and future applications.

@inproceedings{Moon2006b,
address = {Kyoto, Japan},
annote = {International Conference Papers1},
author = {Moon, I.-C. and Carley, K M},
booktitle = {World Congress on Social Simulation},
mendeley-groups = {test,WORK},
title = {{Testing the Robustness of Team Structures with Social Simulation}},
year = {2006}
}