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Agent-Based Modelling of Stress and Productivity Performance in the Workplace

The ill-effects of stress due to fatigue significantly impact the welfare of individuals and consequently impact overall corporate productivity. This study introduces a simplified model of stress in the workplace using agent-based simulation. This study represents a novel contribution to the field of evolutionary computation. Agents are
encoded initially using a String Representation and later expanded to multi-state Binary Decision Automata to choose between work on a base task, special project or rest. Training occurs by agents inaccurately mimicking behaviour of highly productive mentors. Stress is accumulated through working long hours thereby decreasing productivity performance of an agent. Lowest productivity agents are fired or retrained. The String representation for agents demonstrated near average performance attributed to the normally distributed tasks assigned to the string. The BDA representation was found to be highly adaptive, responding robustly to parameter changes. By reducing the number of simplifications for the model, a more accurate representation of the real world can be achieved.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:OGU.10214/7411
Date23 August 2013
CreatorsPage, Matthew, Page, Matthew
ContributorsAshlock, Daniel
Source SetsLibrary and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis
RightsAttribution-NoDerivs 2.5 Canada, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.5/ca/

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