Rationality and Power in ICT: Addressing the gap in the middle
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We are interested in designing better distributed software by explicitly modelling realistic user rationalities and the social, administrative and organisational structures that they inhabit and construct. Increasingly, software systems exist in networks that span multiple users and organisations. The components of such systems are loosely coupled and dynamically changing. In order to design such systems plausible models of user behaviour and social and administrative structures are required. Distributed systems design has tended adopt extreme models such as unconditional cooperation or rational action for user models and highly centralised or completely decentralised administrative structures. We aim to address the ”gap in the middle” between these extremes by adapting and applying novel models derived from disciples within complexity science research in order to design better distributed ICT.
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تاریخ انتشار 2007