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| Title: | DEPENDENCY BASED COORDINATION FOR CONSISTENT SOLUTIONS IN DISTRIBUTED WORK |
| Authors: | Johar, Hardeep
Dhar, Vasant |
| Issue Date: | 1992 |
| Publisher: | Stern School of Business, New York University |
| Series/Report no.: | IS-92-38 |
| Abstract: | Many organizational problems can be decomposed into nearly independent
subproblems the solution of which is the responsibility of independent
agents. In this kind of work, which we call distributed work, the
problems are only nearly independent since dependencies exist between
the commitments required from each agent. As a consequence of these
dependencies, the coordination problem becomes one of maintaining a
consistent global solution in the face of the possibly conflicting
activities of each agent. We define a normative model for coordination
protocols that indicates the formal requirements for maintaining a
globally consistent solution. The model identifies several properties
that the protocol must enforce, namely serializability, atomicity,
completeness, and soundness. We show that these properties are desirable
in coordination protocols for distributed work problems. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2451/14353 |
| Appears in Collections: | IOMS: Information Systems Working Papers
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