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....and automation rules that simplify and maintain a closed system description, whose consistency and completeness can be directly assessed. However, the complexity of system artifacts requires that the successful performance of the management and engineering tasks must be interdependent 6, 16, 40 42. All tasks, regardless of level of description, describe a potentially non linear sequence of actions. These actions Non linear sequence indicates a partial ordering of nondeterministic or potentially iterative incremental actions. In other places, these action sequences are called task ....

....tasks, regardless of level of description, describe a potentially non linear sequence of actions. These actions Non linear sequence indicates a partial ordering of nondeterministic or potentially iterative incremental actions. In other places, these action sequences are called task chains [6, 18, 40, 42] or p aris [431. 361 affect some concrete or abstract transformation of a soft ware BSO, product or partition. For example, in the task of implementing a software system design as a program, the creation of a successfully compilable program component is a necessary action. Other actions in ....

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....the uncertainty in schedules, they have to be continuously revised over the course of project. This i also supported by studies of actual software development organizations, which have indicated that the majority of scheduling time in a software project is spent on revising a pre existing schedule [48, 121]. SPPS is also a distribuI problem solving process involving a set of agents with conflicting inests [751. Each agent specifies a set of resource requests in order to satisfy his responsibilities and refuses to commit to a compromise (or to a different resource mix) unless he is convinced that no ....

....of computing, opeations research in manufacturing, art ficial intelligence in manufacturing planning and scheduling, and software project management. We found the social analysis works to be a good starting point to unclerotund the complexity and issues of SPPS. Social analysis approaches [121,48] identify the rocurring patterns of social actions in software projects that influence the planning and scheduling and formulate a set of strategies to pursue in dealing with them. Since the social analysis studies rely on empirical data, they provide a signifier insight into why software ....

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....Structuring The approach achieves cooperation among agents defining an organizational structure, that is, the layout of information and control relationship existing among agents. Some systems created following these directive ideas are due to the works of Galbraith [15] 16] Gasser [18], Durfee, Lesser and Corkill [12] g) Partial Global Planning In the model, developed by Durfee and Lesser [10] 11] each agent can reason about implications of its actions on other agents state (i.e. on their goals, plans, beliefs) This reasoning ability is the basis to decide how to ....

L. Gasser, "The integration of computing and routine work", ACM Transactions on Office Information Systems, July 1986

.... research stream and have typically focused on the execution of standardized, predefined organizational process (e.g. 6 9] and others) The other side sees plans as resources for action [3] which are used in conjunction with the environment to articulate and reason about the next action steps [10 12]. Following this perspective typical WfMSs are too restrictive as they traditionally prescribe the workflow and do not allow users to adapt the process to the local situation. Therefore, researchers following this tradition have often advocated using flexible communication support systems (like ....

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....workflow model of Figure 1 could be interpreted as a plan to achieve the overall goal of purchasing an item. Although this kind of goal graph does reveal, to some degree, the intentionality behind the work, it does not accurately reflect the way work actually gets done. Empirical research (e.g. [31, 13]) has indicated that a large part of organizational work has to do with addressing problems. Because of the open endedness of organizational work situations, the exact kinds of problems that has(item) ordered(item) received(item) paid(item) delivered(item) Figure 2: A Goal Graph for Goods ....

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.... User Agents Figure 4: Contract Net Modeled as a MACE Organization ffl The idea that long term problem solving proceeded through a series of frozen accidents that became embedded, reified, and aggregated into stable structures of action and interaction (Studies of organizational integration (OI) Gasser 86] and organizational knowledge (ORGKNOW) Gasser et al. 89] ffl The idea of organizations as stable, overlapping, and nested patterns of action and knowledge as patterns of settled and unsettled questions rather than organizations as fixed structures of responsibility, communication, or ....

....a multi perspective process, and that disparities can occur at any level of description or context from many different points of view simultaneously. Hence, processes in practical DAI systems will be subject to observational and organizational dynamism and incongruity (OI, MACE, ORGKNOW, and OSD [Gasser 86, Gasser et al. 89, Gasser 91, Gasser 92] Figure 5: MACE System Structure ffl The ideas that the loci of action and knowledge in social systems are dynamically aggregated units, that aggregation must be modeled across numerous levels and from numerous perspectives simultaneously, and that in ....

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L. Gasser. "The Integration of Computing and Routine Work". ACM Trans. Office Info. Sys. 4, 3 (1986), 205-225.

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