Many real-life organizations are hierarchies of largely autonomous, heterogeneous members (individuals or other organizations), often exhibiting rich policies. We restrict our attention to organizations that monitor their environ- ment, collate events, determine compliance of their behav- iors with their policies, and potentially act in anticipation of events to ensure the satisfaction of their policies.

This paper models cross-organizational service agree- ments as resulting in the formation of organizations. This paper emphasizes the importance of proactive policy-based governance in organizations (modeled as multiagent sys- tems) and provides a novel architecture supporting policy monitoring, governance, and enactment.

This paper provides an initial formalization and dis- cusses the compliance and completeness of behaviors pro- duced from specified policies. To demonstrate the practical utility of this approach, it is implemented using an existing policy engine and messaging middleware.