FIRST CONGRESS ON THE INFORMATION SYSTEM SCIENCES SESSION 7 INFORMATION SYSTEM SIMULATION AND MODELING TECHNIQUES

摘要

The Leviathan project is a unique, experimental approach to studying the structure and social dynamics of large-scale organizations such as a military command, a government bureau, or an industrial organization. It involves creation of an artificial society in a computerized laboratory, combining live subjects who enact managerial roles with artificial agents which implement policy decisions. The computer represents or simulates the productive skills and behavior of the artificial agents, it provides the artificial language and communication facility for the live subjects to speak with each other and with the robots, and it provides automatic measurement, recording and data reduction of all the behavior of managers and of the accomplishments of the robots. It also automates the analysis and interpretation of the data it accumulates.