The hierarchy of information units and interactions in managing of Organizational Systems is ruther complicated. Interactions between departments of different levels of hierarchy are named "co-ordination" (Mesarovic, Mako, Takahara, 1970). This paper deals with the coordination as the "vertical" informational interfaces between the units called "elementary management cycles" which compose the s...

Engineering component-based software systems in a distributed fashion is challenging. Particular issues to address include software process and work co-ordination, sharing and collaborative editing of component specifications, designs and implementations, and appropriate sharing of reusable components. This paper describes our approach to tool support for distributed component engineering. Seve...

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Playing an instrument is a physical skill learned through observation, repetition and rehearsal. Students of orchestral instruments seek one-to-one tuition from expert musicians. However as they become more accomplished, the number of suitable tutors becomes more concentrated, especially for less common instruments. Often a tutor-student relationship develops over several years and temporary se...

Many techniques for coordinating agents require that the agents communicate, and many of the requisite communications need more than the exchange of a few terse illocutions. In other words they require some form of dialogue. This paper discusses one way to create such dialogues, the use of argumentation, and illustrates the use of this approach in the definition of dialogues about joint plans.

Web services can be seen as a newly emerging research area for Service-oriented Computing and their implementation in Serviceoriented Architectures. Web services are self-contained, self-describing modular applications or components providing services. Web services may be dynamically aggregated, composed, and enacted as Web services Workflows. This requires frameworks and interaction protocols ...