Effects of Organizational Dynamics in A...

In this paper, the effects of alternating the organizational setting of distributed adaptive search processes in the course of search processes are investigated. The organizational properties under change include, for example, the coordination mechanisms among agents. We analyze different temporal change modes using an agent-based simulation. Results suggest that inducing organizational dynamics has the potential to increase the effectiveness of search, but that the mode of change in conjunction with the complexity of the search problem considerably affects the order of magnitude of this beneficial effect.