Radar‐soar: Towards an artificial organization composed of intelligent agents*

Radar‐Soar, an artificial organization composed of intelligent agents, is crafted out of multiple interconnected modules—one of each agent, one of the organizational design (structure plus process), and one of the task. Each agent is based on a sophisticated model of cognition, i.e., Soar. Using Radar‐Soar we demonstrate how insight into organizational (and so social) behavior can be gained using computational models that take a meso‐approach to organizations.

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