Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., Cambridge. Lab. for Information and Decision Systems, Report No. LIDS-TH-1730, Master's thesis, 1987.
Abstract: Variable structure organizations are defined as decisionmaking organizations in which the pattern of interactions between decisionmakers can vary. A quantitative methodology is developed to evaluate their effectiveness in the achievement of their mission. A model of these organizations using Predicate Transition Nets is presented, in which the decisionmakers are treated as an ordinary resource. The decisionmakers are modeled by tokens that move from one pattern of interactions to the other, depending on designer defined protocols.