Presentation 2007/3/7
Agent-Based Simulation to Analyze Business Office Activities using Reinforcement Learning
Yukinao KENJO, Takashi YAMADA, Takao TERANO,
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Abstract(in English) This paper attempts to clarify organizational behavior in corporative organizations by agent-based simulations. We focus attention on both the roles of manages and the initiatives of staffs, and then model them using agent-based model concepts. This enables us to investigate phenomena in organizations at micro-level and macro-level. Besides, we formulate the task processing of each member in real organizations as learning for maze problem. The advantages of applying maze problem for our simulation model are as follows: It is possible to describe agents who acquire skills by reinforcement learning and to represent environmental uncertainty by changing block placements dynamically. Several computational experiments clarify what the whole organization behaves from microscopic points of view. At the same time, the authors confirm that the ability to adapt environments under uncertainty is different from the characters of organization.
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Keyword(in English) Agent-Based Simulation / Computational Organization Theory / Reinforcement Learning
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Title (in English) Agent-Based Simulation to Analyze Business Office Activities using Reinforcement Learning
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Keyword(1) Agent-Based Simulation
Keyword(2) Computational Organization Theory
Keyword(3) Reinforcement Learning
1st Author's Name Yukinao KENJO
1st Author's Affiliation Department of Computational Intelligence and System Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology()
2nd Author's Name Takashi YAMADA
2nd Author's Affiliation Department of Computational Intelligence and System Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology
3rd Author's Name Takao TERANO
3rd Author's Affiliation Department of Computational Intelligence and System Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Date 2007/3/7
Paper # AI2006-35
Volume (vol) vol.106
Number (no) 585
Page pp.pp.-
#Pages 8
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