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Structure and action in distributed organizations

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COCS '90: Proceedings of the ACM SIGOIS and IEEE CS TC-OA conference on Office information systems

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https://doi.org/10.1145/91474.91481

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An organization's structure specifies the formal relationships between the objects which comprise the organization. An organization's action is initiated by the communication of messages between the organizational objects. This paper describes some of the organization's structural relationships and message passing patterns. It also explores the relationship between structure and action. An organization is described using the Ubik system. Within this system, the organizational representation is specified using a distributed semantic net consisting of objects called configurators; the message passing action is based on the Actor model of parallel and distributed processing. The structure is related to the action by the use of special configurators called constructors, tapeworms, questers and sponsors. These configurator build, maintain, monitor and reason over the distributed networks.

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/168555.168583
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COCS '90: Proceedings of the ACM SIGOIS and IEEE CS TC-OA conference on Office information systems

March 1990

291 pages

ISBN:0897913582

DOI:10.1145/91474

Editors:
Frederick H. Lochovsky
Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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Robert B. Allen

ACM SIGOIS Bulletin Volume 11, Issue 2-3
Apr. 1990
288 pages
ISSN:0894-0819
DOI:10.1145/91478
Editors:
Frederick H. Lochovsky
Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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Robert B. Allen
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de Jong P(1993)Methods for organizational developmentProceedings of the conference on Organizational computing systems10.1145/168555.168583(250-257)Online publication date: 1-Dec-1993
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/168555.168583
Elahi HWang GZhang W(2017)A Privacy-Aware Conceptual Framework for Coordination2017 IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications and 2017 IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Communications (ISPA/IUCC)10.1109/ISPA/IUCC.2017.00036(190-197)Online publication date: Dec-2017
https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPA/IUCC.2017.00036
de Jong P(2009)A framework for the development of distributed organizationsJournal of Organizational Computing10.1080/109193992095401752:1(77-94)Online publication date: 4-Nov-2009
https://doi.org/10.1080/10919399209540175
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