Delegation technologies: environmental scanning with intelligent agents

摘要: Identification and evaluation of relevant trends patterns are critical steps in an organization's business environment monitoring. Not surprisingly, the "experts" that perform this seldom skilled all disciplines necessary to accomplish a thorough environmental indicators. While one expert may be at recognizing potential for political turmoil foreign nation, another Motorola is how Japanese government deregulation meant complement development new products. Moreover, these experts often benefit from each other's skills knowledge assessing activity environment. Often interchange among variously analysts becomes distributed problem-solving creates high-quality, interdisciplinary analysis essential effective monitoring activity. Problems process occur when particular expertise, agent network, unavailable, domain does not play role analysis. The focus paper on distribution expertise sharing A technical approach adapted effort--an architecture prototype "delegation technologies" described provide capability capturing, organizing, distributing used by classifying qualitative indicators redistribution responsibilities through delegation to, coordination of, intelligent agents examined.