Adaptable, Organization-Aware, Service-Oriented Computing

Abstract

Athanasios Staikopoulos, Trinity College Dublin requirements, does of course not make it easier to use or to control. In particular, business processes demand resilience and real-time adaptation in the face of changing business requirements, incorporation of alternative services, and fi nding suitable substitutes when those needed are unavailable. The European Union-funded Alive project (http:// www.ist-alive.eu) is prototyping ideas, driven by commercial and industrial use cases, that utilize research in organizational modeling, software agents, model-driven engineering, artifi cial intelligence, the Semantic Web, and Web services to construct tools and demonstrators to address these needs. This article outlines the Alive architecture for serviceoriented computing, describes some of the innovative tools we have developed and illustrates it all with a detailed run-through from one of our use cases.

Towards next generation coordination infrastructures

“…Thus, providing decision support to help agents reduce the scope of reasoning with the aim of achieving their goals is an open issue for next generation coordination infrastructures.The vast majority of research on coordination infrastructures, with the exception of Aldewereld et al . (2010) and Vazquez-Salceda et al . (2010), has focused on the off-line design of coordination in a centralised manner.…”

“…How to support coordination design : The vast majority of research on coordination infrastructures, with the exception of Aldewereld et al . (2010) and Vazquez-Salceda et al . (2010), has focused on the off-line design of coordination.…”

Social Coordination Frameworks for Social Technical Systems

“…-Coordination systems where, in spite of the need for a sharp specification of interactions, the precise flow of activity may be difficult to perceive in advance, or multiple variants of some activities may be necessary at some point during the system life-span. For instance, supply networks [4,95], social opinion gathering [82], and web-service choreographing [5].…”

“…For instance, 'Dynamics of population' is a characteristic that pertains to some examples of Flexible Workflows (e.g., flexible service composition [5]), whereas others do not need it at all (the flexibility of the workflow follows from other aspects, the agent population remains fixed, and might be known on forehand). On the other hand, a dash might also indicate that a characteristic is not fully applicable to a particular category.…”

Socially-Aware Emergent Narrative

“…cOncienS adapts the ALIVE framework [1] to its use in games and allows Game AI developers to think in terms of why-what-how when defining the decision-making actions for NPCs. That is, at the Organizational level, the developer defines "why to do something" by describing the elements of the organizational structure in terms of organization objectives, roles, norms, and restrictions.…”