CALL FOR PAPERS

THIS IS TO REMIND YOU IF YOU HAVE NOT DONE SO ALREADY AND ARE INTERESTED
IN PRESENTING A PAPER TO SUBMIT AN ABSTRACT TO THE WORKSHOP IN 
COMPUTATIONAL AND MATHEMATICAL ORGANIZATION THEORY

Background

Announcing the 7th Annual Workshop on Computational and 
Mathematical Organization Theory.  This workshop will be held on May 
3&4 in San Diego in conjunction with the 1997 spring INFORMS meeting.  
The conference will be held in the Town and Country Hotel, 
500 Hotel Circle North, San Diego, CA  92108-3091
The purpose of this workshop is to 
explore advances in formal theories of organizations, new computational 
or network based analysis tools for studying organizations, and empirical 
tests of computational, mathematical, or logical models.  Presentations will 
be from a combination of invited and submitted papers.  Participants need 
not present a paper.  A special issue of the journal Computational and 
Mathematical Organization Theory will be published based on the best 
papers in this workshop.  

Rationale

Organizations can be usefully characterized as constraint-based adaptive 
systems composed of inteligent adaptive agents and tecnology, whose 
ability to act and be acted upon are structurally, culturally, and 
cognitively constrained.  Recent advances in cognitive science,
artificial intelligence, complexity theory, 
and social networks have provided us with 
richer and more precise models of intelligent agents, the
processes they engage in, and the structures in which they are
embedded.

Organizational theorists, managers, engineers and social scientists
interested in organizations and their performance now have the 
opportunity to combine these models with more traditional approaches to 
organizations.  This combination allows the researcher to address issues 
where  structural, adaptive, and evolutionary issues are paramount; e.g.,
coordination, negotiation, organizational design, re-engineering,
organizational communication, organizational evolution, market 
restructuring,
and organizational learning.
These opportunities are explored in this workshop, largely
through the presentation and discussion of formal models and
theories.

Topic areas for 1997 include:  
Organizational adaptation, the evolution of organizational form, 
organizations in changing environments, complexity theory,
organizational learning, dynamic systems, evolution of inter-
organizational networks, formal models of technology, information 
diffusion within organizations,
docking of computational models, model validation.

If you are interested in presenting a paper you should 
send a title and extended abstract, 1-3 
pages, by March 1 to Kathleen Carley - carley+@andrew.cmu.edu.

Non-speaking participants are VERY welcome.

To register -

Note:  If you only wish to attend the workshop and not the
full informs meeting you do not need to rigister for the informs meeting.

Workshop fee:

To register:
 either register through the registration form in the informs 
magazine or through the websight.
http://www.informs.org/Conf/Conf.html

http://www.stern.nyu.edu/informs/cmot.html

There is a reduced student registration fee