Paper Info
Title
Extending unbounded systems thinking with agent-oriented modeling: conceptualizing a multiple perspective decision-making support system
Abstract
Organizations today face complex decision-making environments in which multiple perspectives must be considered. Mitroff and Linstone [The Unbounded Mind: Breaking the Chains of Traditional Business Thinking (1993) Oxford University Press, New York] developed Unbounded Systems Thinking (UST), of which multiple perspectives are an integral part. They suggest that, while the theory of applying multiple perspectives to decision-making and knowledge creation is sound and well researched, the implementation of multiple perspectives is difficult. It is maintained here that agent-oriented modeling can be used to design a system supporting multiple perspectives and to extend UST. This paper applies the Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) model of agents to UST to demonstrate the use of agent-oriented modeling to facilitate multiple perspective decision support.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1016/j.dss.2004.06.009
Decision Support Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
unbounded systems thinking,bdi model,multiple perspectives,multiple perspective decision-making support,multiple perspective decision support,agents,unbounded mind,agent-oriented modeling,complex decision-making environment,new york,traditional business thinking,extending unbounded systems,multiple perspective,unbounded system,oxford university press,decision-making,integral part,decision support,systems thinking
Computer science,Support system,Decision support system,Knowledge management,Belief–desire–intention model,Knowledge creation,Systems thinking,Agent oriented modeling
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
41
1
Decision Support Systems
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.41
24
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dianne Hall111316.52
Yi Guo240.41
Robert A. Davis3475.72
Casey G. Cegielski412615.38