CMOT Announcement

[M. J. Prietula]

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS FOR THE SWARM....

IF YOU ARE INTEESTED IN PRESENTING A PAPER/RESEARCH NOTE
TO THE WORKSHOP IN COMPUTATIONAL AND MATHEMATICAL 
ORGANIZATION THEORY....

Background

Announcing the 7th Annual Workshop on Computational and 
Mathematical Organization Theory.  This workshop will be held on May
3&4 in San Diego in conjunction with the 1997 spring INFORMS meeting. 
The conference will be held in the Town and Country Hotel, 500 Hotel
Circle North, San Diego, CA  92108-3091 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.  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 inteligent adaptive agents and tecnology,
whose ability to act and be acted upon are structurally, culturally,
and cognitively constrained.  Recent advances in cognitive science,
artificial intelligence, complexity theory, and social networks have
provided us with richer and more precise models of intelligent agents,
the processes they engage in, and the structures in which they are
embedded.

Organizational theorists, managers, engineers and social scientists
interested in organizations and their performance now have the
opportunity to combine these models with more traditional approaches
to organizations.  This combination allows the researcher 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 1997 include:  
Organizational adaptation, the evolution of organizational form,
organizations in changing environments, complexity theory,
organizational learning, dynamic systems, evolution of inter-
organizational networks, formal models of technology, information
diffusion within organizations, docking of computational models, model
validation.

If you are interested in presenting a paper you should 
send a title and extended abstract, 1-3 
pages, by March 1 to Kathleen Carley - address@hidden

Non-presenting 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 rigister for the informs
meeting.


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

http://www.stern.nyu.edu/informs/cmot.html

There is a reduced student registration fee

The registration fees are $95 (general) and $65 (student) until April
9, and $115 (general) and $85 (student) after April 9.
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Note: Permission to post this was kindly granted by Glen Ropella.
            
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Michael J. Prietula
Center for Accounting Research & Professional Education              
Associate Professor of Systems
Fisher School of Accounting      
267 Business                     
University of Florida            
Gainesville, FL 32611-7166          

Vmail: 352-392-8876              
Fmail: 352-392-7962              
Email: address@hidden