@inproceedings{SDZB2000,
title = {Towards a Theory of Organizations},
author = {Pietro Speroni di Fenizio and Peter Dittrich and Jens Ziegler and Wolfgang Banzhaf},
booktitle = {German Workshop on Artificial Life (GWAL 2000)},
howpublished = {Only available eletronically},
month = {April},
url = {http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/speronidifenizio01towards.html},
year = {2000},
abstract = {In this paper we develop an algebra to describe organizations. Its application is demonstrated with five examples. We start from definitions given by Fontana (1992) of an organization as a closed and self-maintaining set of interacting objects. We develop a formal framework to describe the inner structure of an organization and a relationship between different organizations. The definitions of intersection and union of organizations are developed. Those definitions naturally give rise to a lattice (an algebraic structure over a partially ordered set) which provides a precise basis to study the hierarchical nature of organizations. Some fundamental properties are described and the usefulness of the mathematical concepts demonstrated by application.},
comment = {The proceedings never went on print so the paper is unfortunately only available electronically at: http://ls11-www.informatik.uni-dortmund.de/people/dittrich//p/SDZB2001gwal.ps.gz}, citeulike-article-id = {437654}, priority = {0},
keywords = {algebra artificialchemistry constructivedynamicalsystem dynamicalsystem organizationtheory personal }
}
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