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Many software systems can be viewed as organizational systems, where the different components are seen as autonomous entities, interacting with each other, collaborating toward system’s aims.In such systems we may not have full control over the behavior of all its components. Normative specification of an organizational system, provides a way of describing the norms that regulate the behavior of a system and of its components, stating how they are expected to behave, assuming however, that they may deviate from that ideal behavior. In this paper we use an action and deontic modal logic for the normative specification of organizational systems. This logical framework allows us to describe expected behavior of agents, detect non-ideal behavior and identify the agents that, direct or indirectly, are responsible for it. We argue that normative specification can be an useful tool to increase trust and security in complex computational systems and propose a responsibility-based trust concept.
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Pacheco, O. (2006). Normative Specification: A Tool for Trust and Security. In: Dimitrakos, T., Martinelli, F., Ryan, P.Y.A., Schneider, S. (eds) Formal Aspects in Security and Trust. FAST 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3866. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11679219_14
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