Title
Obligations and Delegation in the ODP Enterprise Language
Abstract
The ODP Enterprise Language is used to describe the organizational objectives and policies that apply to the system to be specified. It also captures constraints associated with the environment in which the system is to be used. Because the enterprise specification is concerned more with organizational issues than technical details of the system, there is considerable emphasis in the language design on obligations and norms, rather than on the declaration of some single rigidly required behaviour. This leads to a requirement for specification techniques that encompass a wide range of behaviour and then identify which behaviour should occur and how exceptions are to be handled, this is more challenging than computational specification, where the specification is essentially a recognizer for correct behaviour and does not define what is to happen if there are violations. This paper describes work currently in progress within the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) to extend the Enterprise Language so that it is able to express more directly the necessary obligations and other deontic concepts, such as permissions and prohibitions. The approach being taken is to introduce a new kind of object that reifies the deontic constraints and thereby simplifies the description of the behaviour expected. Once the basic concepts are in place, they can be used to define a wide range of organizational matters, such as delegation rules and the way communities respond dynamically to changes in their structure.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/EDOCW.2012.28
Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference Workshops
Keywords
Field
DocType
correct behaviour,organizational issue,specification technique,computational specification,odp enterprise language,organizational matter,wide range,organizational objective,enterprise language,enterprise specification,consumer behaviour,open systems,exception handling
Declaration,Data mining,Iso standards,Deontic logic,Systems engineering,Software engineering,Consumer behaviour,Computer science,Exception handling,Delegation,Open system (systems theory),Standardization
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2325-6583
978-1-4673-5005-1
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.43
4
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Peter F. Linington19418.92
Hiroshi Miyazaki230.43
Antonio Vallecillo31399131.98