Accession Number:

ADA106775

Title:

Formal Techniques for Analysis and Design of Purposive Organizations.

Descriptive Note:

Final rept.,

Corporate Author:

ILLINOIS UNIV URBANA DEPT OF ARCHITECTURE

Personal Author(s):

• Murphree,E. L. , Jr.
• Dinnat,R. M.
• Clickener,Patricia
• Matthews,Richard

Report Date:

1981-09-01

Pagination or Media Count:

93.0

Abstract:

A framework for a generic model of purposive human organizations is presented. The static model is based on relationships between pairs of resources, pairs of tasks, and resource-task pairs. The heart of the approach is a relational matroid which allows notations of such basic organizational patterns as authority, groupings of resources, task precedence, assignment of resources to tasks, and information flow. Author

Descriptors:

• *ORGANIZATIONS
• *OPERATIONS RESEARCH
• *NETWORK ANALYSIS(MANAGEMENT)
• MATHEMATICAL MODELS
• COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION
• PARAMETRIC ANALYSIS
• DECISION MAKING
• INFORMATION EXCHANGE
• PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
• MATRICES(MATHEMATICS)
• FEEDBACK
• DATA ACQUISITION
• RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
• DECOMPOSITION

Subject Categories:

• Administration and Management
• Operations Research

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE