| Members of the Complex Systems Modeling Team of the Computer Research and Applications Group (CIC-3) of the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) are working on a project with the Physical Science Laboratory (PSL) of the New Mexico State University (NMSU) on the analysis of the decision structures of complex organizations dependent on information systems for communication and coordination. The project aims to develop formal representations and agent-based computer simulations of such Socio-Technical Organizations (STOs), conceived as hybrid systems with an underlying physical (dynamic, law-based) system, mediated with a layer of computer-based communication, and interacting with communities of decision-making agents or actors. Target applications include "Operations Management" (OM) STOs such as 911/Emergency Response or Search and Rescue operations. |
Mathematical Approaches Development Environments (under evaluation) |