Modeling organizational units as modular components of systems of systems

Authors:
Matthias Wester-Ebbinghaus;Daniel Moldt;Michael Köhler-Bußmeier
Affiliations:
University of Hamburg, Department of Informatics, Hamburg;University of Hamburg, Department of Informatics, Hamburg;University of Hamburg, Department of Informatics, Hamburg
Venue:
Transactions on Petri nets and other models of concurrency IV
Year:
2010

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Abstract

Modern software systems are frequently characterized as systems of systems. Agent-orientation as a software engineering paradigm exhibits a high degree of qualification for addressing many of the accompanying challenges. However, when it comes to a hierarchical/recursive system decomposition, classical agent orientation reaches its limits. We propose the concept of an organizational unit that both embeds actors and is itself embedded as a collective actor in surrounding organizational units. Building upon previous publications that feature an abstract model of organizational units, we supply it with a precise operational semantics in this paper.