COMPUTATIONAL & MATHEMATICAL ORGANIZATION THEORY (Autumn 1995, Kluwer Academic Publishers) Editors: Kathleen M. CARLEY, Carnegie Mellon University, USA William A. WALLACE, Rensselaer Institute of Technology, USA Aims and Scope: The aim of this journal is to provide an international forum for research that advances organizational theory and analysis through the use of computational and mathematical techniques. The journal will present a new perspective on organizational research that extends the traditional mathematical approach to formal organizational theory by including computer simulation, logic, and artificial intelligence. This journal will provide a home for organizational research from multiple disciplines, where that research focuses on organizations as collections of intelligent agents. We envision that the papers will fall into roughly four categories: (1) theory development through mathematical and computational analyses, (2) social network analysis as applied to organizations, (3) empirical testing of mathematical and computational models (4) mathematical or computational methods for analyzing empirical data A number of the studies across these four categories will focus on the process by which organizations operate and evolve. In addition, many of the studies will bring together both micro (organizational behavior) and macro (institutional and environmental) factors in the analysis of organizations. The editors also encourage applied research representing actual organizational problems and issues on specific industries. Finally, the journal will publish special issues on focused topics; possible topics include, but are not limited to, computational organizational design, organizational evolution, organizations of intelligent agents, emotions in organizations, and organizations and crises.
The journal will also provide a didactic service. A section of the journal (a few pages per issue) will be devoted to tutorial papers. Examples of such papers would include how to check the robustness of a simulation, details of the differences between different types of systems, how to use simulations to determine what human experiments to run.
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