Distributed applications are increasingly going global and crossing organization boundaries. This change raises serious questions about how to manage the responsibilities of individual components and the organizations that own them?something that might make work on viewing distributed systems in terms of human-like social structures increasingly critical.
Index Terms:
norms, policies, contracts, software by contract, agents, multiagent systems
Citation:
Steven Willmott, "On Distributed Systems and Social Engineering," IEEE Distributed Systems Online, vol. 5, no. 11, pp. 1, Nov. 2004, doi:10.1109/MDSO.2004.31