A Proposal for the Organisational Measure in Intelligent Systems.

The collaboration within organisations and among organisations is a fundamental concept in the attainment of the overall objectives pursued by an enterprise network in human companies. Swarm systems are intelligent systems that show collaboration within the system; moreover, some models, such as multiple ant colonies, show the collaboration of several systems to achieve a global goal. The collaboration in this type of system optimises the achievement of the overall objectives as in an enterprise network in human organisations. Being able to measure this collaboration allows establishing a relationship between the improvement in the results of the system and the degree of collaboration, both at the level of specialisation of each element of the system and the systems as a whole. The performance of a swarm system depends on the number of members in many cases, so that if we can establish a measure of specialisation and collaboration, we could tipify and classify these systems in terms of the efficiency and the realiability to perform different tasks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]