Integrating engineering, cognitive and social approaches for a comprehensive modeling of organizational agents and their contexts

Authors:
Marielba Zacarias;H. Sofia Pinto;José Tribolet
Affiliations:
Center for Organizational Engineering, INESC, Lisboa, Portugal and Universidade do Algarve, ADEEC-FCT, Faro, Portugal;Department of Information Systems and Computer Science, IST/UTL, Lisbon, Portugal and ALGOS, INESC-ID, Lisboa, Portugal;Center for Organizational Engineering, INESC, Lisboa, Portugal and Department of Information Systems and Computer Science, IST/UTL, Lisbon, Portugal
Venue:
CONTEXT'07 Proceedings of the 6th international and interdisciplinary conference on Modeling and using context
Year:
2007

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Abstract

Organizational models produced within computer science fields have proved to be effective communication tools in developing shared understandings of the design of organizations and systems. We argue that these models can also be valuable in capturing the actual implementation of organizations. However, this kind of usage requires the development of enterprise representations that (1) acknowledge the complexity of organizations and its agents and (2) are able of capturing the situated and dynamic behavior of organizational agents. This paper describes how engineering, cognitive and social approaches to context are integrated in a conceptual framework to model organizational agents and their contexts of interaction to address these issues. This integration is illustrated with examples from a case study.