Coordination of Large-Scale Socio-Technical Systems: Challenges and Research Directions

Andrea Omicini, Franco Zambonelli

Most of the emerging software-intensive systems nowadays are very large-scale ones, and inherently socio-technical. In this position paper, we argue that the peculiar features of such emerging systems (up to millions of interacting components, lacking central control, mixing humans and artificial components) call for novel approaches to coordinate the overall activities and functionalities. Accordingly, we discuss the key challenges to be faced by research in coordination models and technologies, and try to sketch some promising research directions.

(keywords) socio-technical systems; large-scale systems; coordination models

WOA 2015 – From Objects to Agents, CEUR Workshop Proceedings 1382, pages 76-79, 17-19 June 2015.
Claudia Di Napoli, Silvia Rossi, Mariacarla Staffa (eds.), Sun SITE Central Europe, RWTH Aachen University, Napoli, Italy
Proceedings of the 16th Workshop “From Objects to Agents”

@inproceedings{coordination-woa2015,
	Address = {Napoli, Italy},
	Author = {Omicini, Andrea and Zambonelli, Franco},
	Booktitle = {WOA 2015 -- From Objects to Agents},
	Editor = {Di Napoli, Claudia and Rossi, Silvia and Staffa, Mariacarla},
	Keywords = {socio-technical systems; large-scale systems; coordination models},
	Issn = {1613-0073},
	Month = {17--19~} # jun,
	Note = {Proceedings of the 16th Workshop ``From Objects to Agents''},
	Pages = {76--79},
	Publisher = {Sun SITE Central Europe, RWTH Aachen University},
	ScopusId = {2-s2.0-84961590472},
	Series = {CEUR Workshop Proceedings},
	Title = {Coordination of Large-Scale Socio-Technical Systems: Challenges and Research Directions},
	Url-Pdf = {http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1382/paper11.pdf},
	Volume = 1382,
	Year = 2015}