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Modern software systems are frequently characterized as systems of systems. Agent-orientation as a software engineering paradigm exhibits a high degree of qualification for addressing many of the accompanying challenges. However, when it comes to a hierarchical/recursive system decomposition, classical agent orientation reaches its limits. We propose the concept of an organizational unit that both embeds actors and is itself embedded as a collective actor in surrounding organizational units. Building upon previous publications that feature an abstract model of organizational units, we supply it with a precise operational semantics in this paper.
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Wester-Ebbinghaus, M., Moldt, D., Köhler-Bußmeier, M. (2010). Modeling Organizational Units as Modular Components of Systems of Systems. In: Jensen, K., Donatelli, S., Koutny, M. (eds) Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency IV. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6550. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18222-8_8
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