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....[25] f) Organizational Structuring The approach achieves cooperation among agents defining an organizational structure, that is, the layout of information and control relationship existing among agents. Some systems created following these directive ideas are due to the works of Galbraith [15] [16], Gasser [18] Durfee, Lesser and Corkill [12] g) Partial Global Planning In the model, developed by Durfee and Lesser [10] 11] each agent can reason about implications of its actions on other agents state (i.e. on their goals, plans, beliefs) This reasoning ability is the basis to decide ....

J. Galbraith, "Organization Design", Readings, MA, Addison-Wesley, 1977

....activity interaction but, in this case, the coordinator interferes between two consecutive agent computations for analyzing partial results. A theoretical analysis of problems involved in agent interaction can be found in [26, 44] moreover for other interaction paradigms, we point the reader to [57] and to the related works reported in [18, 29] 2.1.3 Formal Descriptions of Multiagent Systems Formal descriptions aim to assess properties and to provide formal specifications of multiagent systems. There are formal descriptions of both agent paradigms and interaction paradigms, but some ....

J. Galbraith. Organization Design. Addison-Wesley, Readings, USA, 1977.

.... 1992 [69] Nidumolu 1989 [52] Network Antonelli 1990 [2] Johnston and Lawrence (1988) 35] Kambil 1991 [74] Antonelli 1988 [3] Underlying Theoretical Perspectives IO Economics SCP Paradigm (Scherer, 1980, Tirole 1988) 67, 72] Information Processing (Galbraith, 1977) [28] Coordination Science (Malone, 1988) 39] Interdependent Value Chains (Porter, 1985) 58] Transaction Costs theory(Williamson, 1975;1985) 78, 79] Game theory (Bakos, 1987) 5] Social Network theory (Cook et al., 1987) 20] Resource Dependence (Pfeffer Salancik, 1978) 56] Political ....

J. Galbraith. Organization Design, Reading: Addison-Wesley, MA, 1977.

....Keywords empirical study, communication, process, organizational structure, inspections INTRODUCTION Many factors which impact the success of software development projects still defy our efforts to control, predict, manipulate, or even identify them. One factor that has been identified [3] but is still not well understood is information flow. It is clear that information flow impacts productivity (because developers spend time communicating) as well as quality (because developers need information from each other in order to carry out their tasks effectively) 12] It is also clear ....

....theory literature [11, 5] it has not been adequately addressed for software development organizations. Communication has been identified as an important factor in how developers spend their time [12] and some organizational characteristics which affect its efficiency have been suggested [3, 8]. Some, but surprisingly little, of the process work in software engineering has dealt with information flow or organizational structure [1, 2, 13] It has been postulated that informal communication is usually more 1 Flow Information Development Process information processing ....

J. R. Galbraith. Organization Design. AddisonWesley, 1977.

....by information processing and communication tools. The basic premise of the VDT model is that organizations are fundamentally information processing structures. This view of organizations dates back to Weber s work in the early 1900s, and is elaborated in (March and Simon 1958) Simon 1976) (Galbraith 1977). In this view, an organization is an information processing and communication system, structured to achieve a specific set of tasks, and composed of limited teams (called actors ) that process information. Actors send and receive messages along specific lines of communication (e.g. formal lines ....

....produces a Gantt chart for an example project. Solid lines show the traditional Critical Path Method time projection. The broader gray lines show the more realistic VDT prediction considering both planned direct work and additional predicted rework and coordination among actors. 5 Jay Galbraith s (1977) information processing view of organizations provides a foundation for modeling the information processing patterns of an organization and, by simulation, for determining overall information processing capacity of an organization. Galbraith views organizations as limited in their ability to ....

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Galbraith, J.R., Organization Design, Addison-Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts; 1977.

....at the earliest time possible. 4.3 Temporal propagation The constraint propagation mechanisms of the assertional component have been extended to handle time mapped propositions. Consider that the following propositions have been asserted: and (taurus car 1) 1 7] engine car 1 engine 1) [3 9] ) Applying terminological knowledge (all Taurus cars have v6 engines) the propagation algorithm infers that, during the intersection of the premises intervals, engine 1 is a v6 engine: v6engine engine 1) 3 7] 9 4.4 Temporal recognition The key assertional service is instance ....

....of time complicates these processes. The major source of complexity is that, in the temporal case, all sets of propositions that have nonempty intersections must be checked. In the example in figure 3, there are two such sets: v6engine e 1) 1 7] Nissan c 1) 2 4] engine c 1 e 1) [1 9] and (v6engine e 1) 1 7] Nissan c 1) 5 8 ] engine c 1 e 1) 1 9] A. Non temporal recognition: Given a set p i of propositions about an instance I and a concept C, prove that belongsto (I, C) Example: Given: c 1 described by the set: v6engine e 1) Nissan c 1) engine c1 ....

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Galbraith, J., (1977) Organization Design, Addison Wesley Publishing Company.

....systems. Huberman (1996) reviews other relationships between economics and distributed systems. Organization theory from a management and sociological perspective has a long history of studying human organizations as information processing networks (e.g. March and Simon (1958) Simon (1976) and Galbraith (1977)) Recent research incorporates explicit models of computation and increased use of mathematical modeling and simulation methods for studying the performance and evolution of organizations. A sample can be found in Carley and Prietula (1994) see Carley (1995) for a review. The field of ....

Galbraith, J. (1977). Organization Design. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.

....then, is a set of proposed hypotheses, along with an argument, in the form of supporting evidence, for their further examination. Although the importance of efficient communication, and its relationship to organizational structure, is well supported in the organization theory literature [8, 15], it has not been adequately addressed for software development organizations. Communication has been identified as an important factor in how developers spend their time [16] and some organizational characteristics that affect its efficiency have been suggested [5, 12] Some, but surprisingly ....

J.R. Galbraith. Organization Design. Addison-Wesley, 1977.

....all, the research questions in section 1.2 have been raised in various forms in the literature. The relationship between communication and organizational structure (in organizations in general) is a strong theme running through the organization theory literature, from classic organization theory [Galbraith77, March58], to organizational growth [Stinchcombe90] to the study of technological organizations [Allen85] to business process reengineering [Davenport90, Hammer90] This relationship has not been explored in detail in software development organizations. However, several studies have provided evidence of ....

Jay R. Galbraith. Organization Design. Addison-Wesley, 1977.

....managers that integrate them and pass their results on to higher level managers. In (c) the nodes are organized in a matrix organization, where separate nodes are responsible for different processing levels, and their results are integrated by other nodes. Figure 2: Control Topologies Galbraith [26, 27] has developed a set of paradigms for redesigning an organizational structure to cope with the increased communication caused by uncertainty (such as unexpected events and errorful information) Galbraith draws upon March and Simon s work, which recognized the limited information processing ....

....the amount of control that can be effectively exercised. Bounded rationality has serious implications on the quality of decisionmaking under uncertainty, for the greater the task uncertainty, the greater the amount of information that must be processed. to achieve a given level of performance [27]. A motivation for variations in organizational structures (in terms of the type, frequency, and connectivity pattern on information flow) is to provide additional information processing capacity (to handle greater uncertainty) within the bounded rationality of the organization s individual ....

Jay R. Galbraith. Organization Design. Addison-Wesley, 1977.

.... or a data exception will happen (when the missing information becomes needed) Data processing activities are a potential source of data exceptions: the workers may not know all the rules for generating new data, the meaning of the rules may change across different departments in the organization [Gal77] and so on. So it is important that a WFMS remembers who produced which information within a data processing activity, since some of the information may be incorrect and a further contact with whoever generated them will probably be necessary to correct them. By keeping track of who did what, ....

J. R. Galbraith. Organization Design. Addison-Wesley, 1977.

....in a shared environment. The expressive power of the model that drives the system s execution will ultimately determine the power of the system as a whole. The absence of rules for dealing with a situation generates an uncertainty level that demands extra information collection and processing [Gal77] Therefore, more expressive models lessen processing effort. An important part of organizations efforts is devoted to exception handling chores [Saa94, SM89] If we could express more at model level, less effort would be spent treating those situations as exceptions. In fact, they would stop ....

....actions will imply in many occasions in referring the workcase upward in the hierarchy for further analysis. This is not a redirection in the strict sense of the term, but implies in changes on the responsibility level. Hierarchies function in this case as additional conflict resolution tools [Gal77] Actor scheduling At enactment time, roles will have to be filled with real actors, that will perform the activities. This scheduling may be done automatically using some algorithm (round robin, work load distribution) or manually by an actor, when subjective judgment must be applied. Some of ....

Galbraith, J. R. "Organization Design, " Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1977.

....the meeting shorter. More obviously, interactions involving more people generally took longer. The relationship between communication and organizational structure (in organizations in general) is a strong theme running through the organization theory literature, from classic organization theory [4, 9], to organizational growth [12] to the study of technological organizations [1] to business process reengineering [3, 5] Most of this work takes a global, long range perspective. The common proposition is that organizational structure evolves over time to facilitate communication and that, in ....

Jay R. Galbraith. Organization Design. Addison-Wesley, 1977.

.... to life by examples such as the typologies of technologies (long linked, mediating, or intensive) interdependencies (pooled, sequential, or reciprocal) and coordination (by standardization, by plan, or by mutual adjustment) His typologies have inspired much research in organizational design (Galbraith, 1977) and contingency theory (Mintzberg, 1979) However, despite the impressive number of citations, the book itself is not read much anymore most students of organization science will only know the book through references. 1 Because of this, the typologies and examples of Thompson are getting more ....

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