Logical routing specification in office information systems
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Knowledge representation and reasoning
Annual review of computer science vol. 1, 1986
Proceedings of the IFIP TC 8 working conference on office systems on Office Systems
Planning for conjunctive goals
Artificial Intelligence
Principles of artificial intelligence
Principles of artificial intelligence
Supporting distributed office problem solving in organizations
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) - Special issue: selected papers from the conference on office information systems
The integration of computing and routine work
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) - Special issue: selected papers from the conference on office information systems
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) - Special issue: selected papers from the conference on office information systems
The art of computer programming, volume 1 (3rd ed.): fundamental algorithms
The art of computer programming, volume 1 (3rd ed.): fundamental algorithms
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We present the rudiments of a new theory of tasks and task views. The motivating idea is essentially as follows: in an environment in which several organizational agents cooperate to accomplish a common task, each of the agents need only know its own part of the task — this is the agent's task view. The underlying computer system may take responsibility for coordinating the actions among the different views. We discuss what task views are and why they are interesting. We also consider consistent task specification based on partial orderings of task actions and the problems involved. The major issues are the expressiveness of action conditions, tractable satisfaction of action conditions, and tractable testing for task consistency. Our notion of task consistency leads us to consider, among other things, the “expressiveness versus tractability” tradeoff encountered in knowledge representation, planning work, and a recent proposal for specification and refinement of office procedures.