Computational organizational science and organizational engineering

8 The past decade has witnessed the emergence of a new scientific discipline––computational 9 social and organizational science. Within organization science in particular, and social science 10 more generally, scientists and practitioners are turning to computational analysis to address 11 fundamental socio-technical problems that are so complex and dynamic that they cannot be 12 fully addressed by traditional techniques. Consequently, there is an explosion of computa13 tional models, computationally generated findings, interest in doing simulation, and a dearth 14 of support for this enterprise. This paper contains discussions of the underlying fundamental 15 perspective, the relation of models to empirical data and characteristics of necessary infra16 structure. 17 2002 Published by Elsevier Science B.V. 18