Regulating Organizations: The ALIVE Approach

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Huib Aldewereld ; Loris Penserini ; Frank Dignum ; Virginia Dignum

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来源: CEUR

【 摘 要 】

Regulating organizations requires a fine balance between central control and (local) adaptability. In this paper we report on our ap- proach using explicit organization and coordination models based on the research performed within the European FP7 project alive. One of the principal aims of alive is to combine coordination and organization mechanisms in order to provide a flexible, high-level means to model the structure of interactions between services in the environment. Our main focus is on the implementation and integration of organizational structures and on the translation of (abstract) norms (e.g., laws and regulations) into (concrete) software systems. Such a way of abstracting from low level system complexity by the use of human- and social- oriented system requirements is very promising to cope with requirements changes, e.g., useful to develop adaptive (service-based) systems.