Agent-Based System for Discovering and Building Collaborative Communities

2006 ◽  
pp. 12-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Nabuco ◽  
Mauro F. Koyama ◽  
Edeneziano D. Pereira ◽  
Khalil Drira
Keyword(s):  
Tacit Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Exchange ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Work Force ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Collaborative Practices ◽  
Collaborative Community ◽  
Common Goals

Currently, organizations are under a regime of rapid economic, social, and technological change. Such a regime has been impelling organizations to increase focus on innovation, learning, and forms of enterprise cooperation. To assure innovation success and make it measurable, it is indispensable for members of teams to systematically exchange information and knowledge. McLure and Faraj (2000) see an evolution in the way knowledge exchange is viewed from “knowledge as object” to “knowledge embedded in people,” and finally as “knowledge embedded in the community.” The collaborative community is a group of people, not necessarily co-located, that share interests and act together to contribute positively toward the fulfillment of their common goals. The community’s members develop a common vocabulary and language by interacting continuously. They also create the reciprocal trust and mutual understanding needed to establish a culture in which collaborative practices pre-dominate. Such practices can grasp and apply the tacit knowledge dispersed in the organization, embodied in the people’s minds. Tacit knowledge is a concept proposed by Polanyi (1966) meaning a kind of knowledge that cannot be easily transcripted into a code. It can be profitably applied on process and/or product development and production. Therefore, community members can powerfully contribute to the innovation process and create value for the organization. In doing so, they become a fundamental work force to the organization.

Towards an interdisciplinary knowledge exchange model

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Santiago DE FRANCISCO ◽  
Diego MAZO
Keyword(s):  
Design Research ◽  
Knowledge Exchange ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
The United States ◽  
Design Environment ◽  
Interdisciplinary Knowledge ◽  
One Year ◽  
The University ◽  
Common Situation

Universities and corporates, in Europe and the United States, have come to a win-win relationship to accomplish goals that serve research and industry. However, this is not a common situation in Latin America. Knowledge exchange and the co-creation of new projects by applying academic research to solve company problems does not happen naturally.To bridge this gap, the Design School of Universidad de los Andes, together with Avianca, are exploring new formats to understand the knowledge transfer impact in an open innovation network aiming to create fluid channels between different stakeholders. The primary goal was to help Avianca to strengthen their innovation department by apply design methodologies. First, allowing design students to proposed novel solutions for the traveller experience. Then, engaging Avianca employees to learn the design process. These explorations gave the opportunity to the university to apply design research and academic findings in a professional and commercial environment.After one year of collaboration and ten prototypes tested at the airport, we can say that Avianca’s innovation mindset has evolved by implementing a user-centric perspective in the customer experience touch points, building prototypes and quickly iterate. Furthermore, this partnership helped Avianca’s employees to experience a design environment in which they were actively interacting in the innovation process.

scholarly journals Communication During Bushfires, Towards a Serious Game for a Serious Matter

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carole Adam ◽  
Charles Bailly ◽  
Julie Dugdale
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
General Public ◽  
Communication Strategies ◽  
Modelling And Simulation ◽  
Serious Game ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
Valuable Insight ◽  
Communication Model ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Agent Based Modelling

Australia is frequently hit by bushfires. In 2009, the ''Black Saturday'' fires killed 173 people and burnt hectares of bush. As a result, a research commission was created to investigate, and concluded that several aspects could be improved, in particular better understanding of the population actual behaviour, and better communication with them. The authors argue that agent-based modelling and simulation is a great approach to provide tools to improve mutual understanding: let managers test communication strategies, and let residents understand the managers' perspective. Concretely, they extended an existing simulator with a theoretically-grounded communication model based in social sciences; they added user interactivity with the model and investigated gamification to turn it into a serious game to involve the general public. The authors present the results of first experiments with different communication strategies, providing valuable insight for better communication with the population during such events. Finally, they discuss future extensions and generalisation of this simulator.

scholarly journals Interpersonal society of Satria Dalem

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-123
Author(s):  
Ida Bagus Brata ◽  
A.A. Gde Putra Pemayun
Keyword(s):  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Study Groups ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Family Head ◽  
The People ◽  
Or Groups ◽  
The Family ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
Common Goals

This study examines "Interpersonal Society between offspring of satria dalem with the community in Tohpati Village Klungkung Bali. Interpersonal Society Skill is a skill that individuals must take in interacting with individuals in interacting with other individuals or groups of individuals. Interpersonal skills are what one uses when communicating and dealing with others face to face. Society implies that society is essential for building self-concept, for survival, self-actualization, to gain happiness, avoiding stress and dependence, among others through entertaining society, and fostering relationships. Through social society can work together with community members (families, study groups, universities, village environment, city, and the country as a whole) to achieve common goals. Problems in this research: how to implement interpersonal society between offspring satria dalem with society in Tohpati Village Klungkung Bali. The purpose of this research is to know and describe interpersonal society within the community in Tohpati Village Klungkung Bali. This research uses the descriptive qualitative method, by using proportional sampling technique consisting of the family head of satria dalem with the society in Tohpati Village Klungkung Bali. The results of this study show that the people of satria dalem descent and the people who live in Tohpati Village have implemented good interpersonal society implementation including: openness, mutual support, positive behavior, empathy and equality, it is proven that all citizens are united in advancing Tohpati Village Klungkung Bali, proven human development index is increasing due to mutual trust, there is togetherness, warmth, comfort feel valued in doing their respective tasks to build the forward Tohpati Village Klungkung.

scholarly journals Implicit Culture Framework for Behavior Transfer

2011 ◽  
pp. 213-241
Author(s):  
Aliaksandr Birukou ◽  
Enrico Blanzieri ◽  
Paolo Giorgini
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Web Service ◽  
Service Discovery ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Community Culture ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Web Service Discovery ◽  
Domain Independent

People belong to different communities: business communities, Web 2.0 communities, just to name a few. In this chapter the authors show that experience acquired by people in communities constitute community culture. The authors introduce the problem of culture transfer between or within communities and propose a domain-independent approach for transferring community culture. First, the authors formalize the notion of culture, which includes behavior, knowledge, artifacts, best practices, etc. Second, using this formalism, the authors propose the Implicit Culture Framework, which is an agent-based framework for transferring behavior between community members or between communities. Finally, the authors present and evaluate a system for web service discovery developed using the Implicit Culture Framework.

Knowledge Transfer Barriers, Methods, and Timing of Methods

2018 ◽  
pp. 364-386
Author(s):  
Gabriel Szulanski ◽  
Sunkee Lee
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Learning ◽  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Tacit Knowledge ◽  
Transfer Process ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Knowledge Exchange

In this chapter, we review research on knowledge transfer and integrate it with the broader organizational learning literature. We begin by reviewing the barriers to knowledge transfer in terms of the characteristics of the knowledge transferred, those of the source, those of the recipient, and those of the context in which knowledge is transferred. Then we review methods to facilitate knowledge transfer across organizational units and organizations. Next, based on recent literature that highlights the importance of timing (Szulanski et al., 2016), we explain when and how to use certain knowledge transfer methods. In particular, we summarize a methodology for analyzing these methods based on each method’s affordance for tacit knowledge exchange, and we provide suggestions on how to time the administration of methods depending on the barriers in the knowledge transfer process. We conclude the chapter by discussing possible directions for future knowledge transfer research.

Tightening the Gap

2019 ◽  
pp. 154-176
Author(s):  
Maria Ray Langheim ◽  
Ann Maureen McCaughan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
School Violence ◽  
School Personnel ◽  
The United States ◽  
School Shooting ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Essential Step ◽  
Successful Communication ◽  
Common Goals

Between January 1, 2012 and January 30, 2018 alone there were 27 school shooting incidents, accounting for 62 victim deaths, 108 victims injured, countless witness and community members affected, and 10 assailants who committed suicide or were killed by a police officer during the attack, at schools or campuses across the United States (U.S.). Clearly, further intervention and prevention strategies are necessary for school personnel and law enforcement, as well as our greater communities, in reducing instances of school violence. Identification of individuals and groups who are at higher risk for violence toward self or others is one essential step in prevention. When prevention is unsuccessful, a student may begin down a path toward violence, eventually posing a threat to the extent that identifying and intervening becomes necessary. Encouraging law enforcement and school personnel to become well-versed in both, so that they might successfully support each other's efforts and develop common goals, is essential to successful communication regarding students and groups of concern.

Knowledge Redundancy, Environmental Shocks, and Agents’ Opportunism

2011 ◽  
pp. 252-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucio Biggiero
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Knowledge Exchange ◽  
Environmental Turbulence ◽  
Financial Assets ◽  
Agent Based Model ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Environmental Shock ◽  
Short Run ◽  
Environmental Shocks ◽  
Object Of Study

Notwithstanding the warning of myopic view, when giving too much emphasis to the short run and stable environments, efficiency is usually claimed by standard economics as the main goal of competitive firms. This is challenged by management and organization scholars, who argue that, in presence of strong uncertainty due to environmental turbulence, slack resources can be a competitive advantage. In order to put some sound block in this debate through, this paper tests four groups of hypotheses on an agent-based model of industry competitiveness based on suppliers’ quality. It innovates current literature in two ways: first, it considers redundancy in terms of organizational knowledge, and not in terms of personnel or financial assets or other types of resources, which are usually taken as object of study. Secondly, it compares the effects of two forms of perturbations: environmental shock and opportunism. The results show that these two forms impact differently on industry profitability and that knowledge redundancy can (limitedly) compensate the effects of environmental shocks but not of opportunism. Moreover, it demonstrates that, as agents exchange (and accumulate) more information, knowledge efficiency declines, but less than proportionally to the increase of knowledge exchange.

Application of Agent-Based Technology as Coordination and Cooperation in the Supply Chain Based E-Business

2011 ◽  
pp. 887-907
Author(s):  
Golenur Begum Huq ◽  
Robyn Lawson
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Multiagent System ◽  
Theoretical Solution ◽  
Electronic Business ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Business Partners ◽  
Common Goals

This chapter explores the utilization of a multiagent system in the field of supply chain management for electronic business. It investigates the coordination and cooperation processes, and proposes and discusses a newly developed model for an enhanced and effective cooperation process for e-business. The contribution made by this research provides a theoretical solution and model for agents that adopt the enhanced strategy for e-business. Both large organizations and SMEs will benefit by increasing and expanding their businesses globally, and by participating and sharing with business partners to achieve common goals. As a consequence, the organizations involved will each earn more profit.

scholarly journals Countering Protection Rackets Using Legal and Social Approaches: An Agent-Based Test

Complexity ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Áron Székely ◽  
Luis G. Nardin ◽  
Giulia Andrighetto
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Social Approach ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
The World ◽  
Protection Rackets ◽  
Economic Perspectives ◽  
Legal Strategies

Protection rackets cause economic and social damage across the world. States typically combat protection rackets using legal strategies that target the racketeers with legislation, strong sentencing, and increasing the presence and involvement of police officers. Nongovernmental organizations, conversely, focus on the rest of the population and counter protection rackets using a social approach. These organisations attempt to change the actions and social norms of community members with education, promotional campaigns, and discussions. We use an agent-based model, which draws on established theories of protection rackets and combines features of sociological and economic perspectives to modelling social interactions, to test the effects of legal and social approaches. We find that a legal approach is a necessary component of a policy approach, that social only approaches should not be used because they lead to large increases in violence, and that a combination of the two works best, although even this must be used carefully.

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