WELD%MIT-OZ@MIT-MC.ARPA (03/06/84)
From: "Daniel S. Weld" <WELD%MIT-OZ@MIT-MC.ARPA>
[Forwarded from the MIT-XX bboard by Laws@SRI-AI.]
Wednesday, March 7 4:00pm 8th floor playroom
Knowledge and Problem Solving Processes
in Organizations
Gerald Barber
Human organizations have frequently been used as models for AI systems
resulting in such theories as the scientific community metaphor, the
society of mind and contract nets among others. However these human
organizational models have been limited by the fact that do no take
into account the epistemological processes involved in organizational
problem solving. Understanding human organizations from an
epistemological perspective is becoming increasingly important as a
source of insight into intelligent activities and for computer-based
technology as it becomes more intricately involved in organizational
activities.
In my talk I will present the results of an organizational study which
attempted to identify problem solving and knowledge processing
activities in the organization. I will also outline the possibilities
for development of both human organizational models and artificial
intelligence systems in light of this organizational study. More
specifically, I will also discuss the shortcoming of organizational
theories and application of the results of this work to highly
parallel computer systems such as the APIARY.