Simulation of Information Flow in Organizations

Abstract

The Icarus simulation system is the result of an experiment in embedding small rule-based expert systems into a discrete event simulation environment. The goal of this work is to allow the use of expert systems to model the intelligent behavior of people that are included in the system being simulated. The major problems we have encountered in building the Icarus system have resulted from unexpected and fundamental interactions between expert systems and our discrete event simulation framework. These interactions are the focus of this paper.