Моделювання поведінки підприємства в процессі самоорганізації

Надано авторське бачення поведінки підприємства у процесі його самоорганізації. Ентропію та інформованність охарактеризовано як фактори впливаючи на поведінку підприємства. Запропонована аксонометрична модель поведінки підприємства у процесі самоорганізації. Ключові слова: інформованність, ентропія, організаційні, дезорганізаційні фактори, поведінка, реакція підприємства, самоорганізація, моделювання, тривимірний простір.Предложено авторское видение поведения предприятия в процессе его самоорганизации. Энтропию и информированность охарактеризовано как факторы влияющие на поведение предприятия. Предложена аксонометрическая модель поведения предприятия в процессе самоорганизации. Ключевые слова: информированность, энтропия, организационные, дезорганизационные факторы, поведение, реакция предприятия, самоорганизация, моделирование, трёхмерное пространство.Provided by copyright vision of enterprise behavior in the process of self-organization. Entropy and informovannist characterized as factors affecting the behavior of the enterprise. The proposed аksonometricmodel of behavior in the process of self-enterprise. Key words: information, entropy, organizational, dezorganizatsionnye factors, behavior, reaction to the enterprise, self-organization, simulation, threedimensional space

Semantic web services for simulation component reuse and interoperability: An ontology approach

Commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) Simulation Packages (CSPs) are widely used in industry primarily due to economic factors associated with developing proprietary software platforms. Regardless of their widespread use, CSPs have yet to operate across organizational boundaries. The limited reuse and interoperability of CSPs are affected by the same semantic issues that restrict the inter-organizational use of software components and web services. The current representations of Web components are predominantly syntactic in nature lacking the fundamental semantic underpinning required to support discovery on the emerging Semantic Web. The authors present new research that partially alleviates the problem of limited semantic reuse and interoperability of simulation components in CSPs. Semantic models, in the form of ontologies, utilized by the authors’ Web service discovery and deployment architecture provide one approach to support simulation model reuse. Semantic interoperation is achieved through a simulation component ontology that is used to identify required components at varying levels of granularity (i.e. including both abstract and specialized components). Selected simulation components are loaded into a CSP, modified according to the requirements of the new model and executed. The research presented here is based on the development of an ontology, connector software, and a Web service discovery architecture. The ontology is extracted from simulation scenarios involving airport, restaurant and kitchen service suppliers. The ontology engineering framework and discovery architecture provide a novel approach to inter-organizational simulation, by adopting a less intrusive interface between participants Although specific to CSPs this work has wider implications for the simulation community. The reason being that the community as a whole stands to benefit through from an increased awareness of the state-of-the-art in Software Engineering (for example, ontology-supported component discovery and reuse, and service-oriented computing), and it is expected that this will eventually lead to the development of a unique Software Engineering-inspired methodology to build simulations in future

Research methods and methodologies for studying organisational learning

The purpose of this paper is to compare and evaluate the main research methods and methodologies for studying organisational learning (OL), and propose a framework for their selection. It presents a comprehensive review of literature on OL, learning organisation (LO) and research methods and reports evidence on recent developments in research methods for studying OL. The paper highlighted on the purists and pragmatists’ views of research methodologies as basis of the study. The results revealed that the research methods and methodologies for studying OL do not reflect on the differing views of the purists and pragmatists’ debate but rather conform to the convergence ideologies of the two camps. Particularly, the outcomes augment the use of triangulation and suggest that the choice of method(s) should be consistent with research aims and epistemological philosophy of OL. Consequently, the study recommends OL Research Methods Framework as a useful guide for selecting a suitable approach in the area. The paper recommends ethnography for future research consideration