Document Type

Conference Paper

Publication Date

2008

Publication Title

29th Annual National Conference of the American Society for Engineering Management 2008

Pages

152-158

Conference Name

29th Annual National Conference of the American Society for Engineering Management 2008, 12-15 November 2008, West Point, New York, USA

Abstract

Engineering Management (EM) is a discipline that takes pride in bridging two major fields, namely engineering and management. It is clear from any basic research conducted within this field that both engineering and management tools and paradigms need to be used jointly. A mixture that encompasses quantitative and qualitative research, as well as theoretical and empirical research is found in literature, making Engineering Management, as a discipline, very complex in nature. As this complexity evolves, so should the tools of the craft. It is interesting, however, to see that Agent-Based Modeling (ABM) as a tool or as a topic of research has not been used in any research conducted in either the Engineering Management Journal (EMJ) or the IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management (IEEE Transactions), the two major publications within EM. It is argued in this paper that ABM, both as a way of gaining insight into complex problems, and as a paradigm of research within EM, has a lot to offer to EM that both researchers and practitioners may take advantage of.

Rights

Copyright © 2008. Reprinted with permission of the American Society for Engineering Management. International Annual Conference. All rights reserved.

Original Publication Citation

Bozkurt, I., Padilla, J. J., & Sousa-Poza, A. A. (2008). Agent-based modeling and possible implications on management and engineering management. In 29th Annual National Conference of the American Society for Engineering Management 2008 (pp. 152-158). American Society for Engineering Management.

ORCID

0000-0003-0720-4148 (Padilla), 0000-0003-0144-9099 (Sousa-Poza)

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