ADAPTIVE, AGILE APPROACHES TO ORGANIZATIONAL ARCHITECTURE UTILIZING AGENT TECHNOLOGY

Intelligent agent-based approaches to software support systems are bel ieved to provide an unparalleled technology for integrating people, ma terials, and capital equipment Software agents can be used to automate mechanization strategies for reducing the information content of work . As such, software agents diminish the need for utilizing humans to d o repetitive, programmable tasks. The purpose of studies of communitie s of intelligent agents is to ascertain their ability to accommodate f lexible, agile organizational structures that can respond rapidly to c hanges in the marketplace, increase throughput, reduce costs, and impr ove quality. This paper presents a conceptual prototype for agent-base d structural self design and describes experiments conducted regarding such studies together with the results obtained.