Announcing the 9th Annual Workshop on Computational and
Mathematical Organization Theory.  This workshop will be held on May 1&2 in
Cincinatti, OH in conjunction with the 1999 spring INFORMS meeting.
The conference will be held in the
The Omni Netherland Plaza.

Announcing the 9th Annual Workshop on Computational and
Mathematical Organization Theory.
The purpose of this workshop is to explore advances in formal
theories of organizations, new computational or network based
analysis tools for studying organizations, and empirical
tests of computational, mathematical, or logical models.
Presentations will be from a combination of invited and submitted
papers.  Participants need not present a paper.  Individuals
interested in presenting a paper must submit an abstract.
A special issue of the journal Computational and Mathematical
Organization Theory will be published based on the best papers
in this workshop.

Rationale

Organizations can be usefully characterized as constraint-based
adaptive systems composed of intelligent adaptive agents and
technology, whose ability to act and be acted upon are structurally,
culturally, and cognitively constrained.  By merging computer
science, social science, and social networks we can create richer and
more precise models of intelligent agents, processes, multi-agent
systems, and organizations.  By developing and testing formal models
that draw on these three traditions the theorist is able to develop a
more complete understanding of the dynamic and adaptive nature of
groups and organizations. Consequently, the researcher is able to
to address issues where  structural, adaptive, and evolutionary issues
are paramount; e.g., coordination, negotiation, organizational design,
re-engineering, organizational communication, organizational
evolution, market restructuring, and organizational learning.
These opportunities are explored in this workshop, largely
through the presentation and discussion of formal models and
theories.

Topic areas for 1999 include:
Emotional agents as organizational agents;
Emotions and multi-agent systems;
Formal models of knowledge networks;
Computational models of the evolution of social networks;
Modeling organizational adaptation and learning;
Canonical task models and metrics for comparing tasks;
Organizations as multi-agent systems and multi-agent systems as organizations;
Computational models of trust and cooperation in organizations;
The linkage between formal complexity theory and organizational theory;
The linkage between formal complexity theory and social networks;
Modeling the evolution of inter-organizational networks,
Models of technology and IT enabled organizations;
Docking of computational models;
Validation issues for computational models of organizations.

Abstracts and papers.
If you are interested in presenting a paper you should
send a title and an extended abstract of 3
pages, by March 1 to Kathleen M. Carley - [log in to unmask]
Abstracts must be sent as either an ascii only file, a MS Word for
Macintosh file saved in rtf format (in which case you should simply
send the rtf file as an ascii text file), or an enclosure with an MS
 Word file.  Make sure that the file is directly readable on a
Macintosh.  All abstracts will be read into an MS Word 98 document
on the Macintosh.  Accepted abstracts will appear in the conference
proceedings.
All presenters are to send full papers for consideration in the CMOT
journal to Kathleen Carley by May 1, 1999.

Non-speaking participants are VERY welcome.

To register -

Note:  If you only wish to attend the workshop and not the
full informs meeting you do not need to register for the informs
meeting.

Other:

Workshop fee:

To register:
 either register through the registration form in the informs
magazine or through the websight.
http://www.informs.org/Conf/Cincinnati99


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