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references g-h
Topic:
programming environment
Topic:
rules
Topic:
organizations as systems
Topic:
roles
Group:
coordination system

Reference

Holt, A.W., Ramsey, H.R., Grimes, J.D., "Coordination system technology as the foundation for programming environments", Electrical Communication, ITT, 57, 4, 1983, pp. 307-314. Google

Notes

page numbering from draft May, 1983

Quotations
2 ;;Quote: an environment is an organized set of tools and facilities supporting an organization of people in their work
4 ;;Quote: computers can help with rules, and nothing else
4 ;;Quote: the rules of an organization include when it's too late and what to do about it, whom to give it to, etc.
5 ;;Quote: a role is always is one of a set of possible states; no concurrent activity
5 ;;Quote: a role's behavior is defined by a state/action sequence; its rules express the possible state/action sequences
5 ;;Quote: interacting roles always perform the same actions
7 ;;Quote: with a coordination system, a computing system is bound by organizational intentions instead of computational intentions by independent users
9 ;;Quote: a coordination system has concurrent roles, automated and user roles, and formal interactions with coincident state change


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