Dear Matthew,
With great interest have found some "key words" for me in your paper under
your URL. Namely around the KPIs for Perfomance Measurments :
"A system has a natural time constant that is related to how fast an
action brings about change in the system. The different levels will have
different time constants. Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) will need to
be identified, whose values will give an unbiased view of performance
(i.e. moving the value in one direction will have a positive effect on the
KPI's at the next level up). Profit and loss is an example of a KPI that
is usually judged on an annual cycle." (01)
Suppose it will be good to make next step in "integration" with the VSM's
approach to the Performance Measurement. Look at some steps in this
direction as "Viable Scorecard" -
http://www.ototsky.mgn.ru/it/papers/vsm-scorecard.pdf (02)
If it is interesting may send more detailed presentation (03)
Leonig - http://paterleo.wikispaces.com (04)
> Dear Mills,
>
> I (co)wrote a speculative framework paper in the kind of area you are
> talking about a few years ago entitled "Intelligence in Systems". Very
> much not AI type intelligence (reasoning), but very much the sort of "self
> awareness" you are talking about here.
>
> http://www.matthew-west.org.uk/Documents/IntelligenceInSystems.pdf
>
> This is also close to the area of Cybernetics, which is about systems (not
> just IT ones) that can self adjust.
>
>
>
>
> Regards
>
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> Danny,
>
> Part of the beauty of the software agent concept is thinking about it in
> different ways. For example, agents can be thought of as a society (ala
> Marvin Minsky) of cooperating entities. In this reading, agents become
> fundamental (most granular) building blocks of potentially very large
> assemblages, that each are part content, part behavior, and part knowledge
> representation. For this to work, each agent needs to have some basic
> self-awareness and autonomic properties. That is, the our notions
> object-orientation (i.e., black boxes whose insides are invisible to other
> software), and stack architecture (i.e., layered abstractions in which
> communications are limited to layers immediately above and below) need to
> be deconstructed. Self-awareness at the most granular level (whether we
> are speaking of software, models, documents), becomes necessary in order
> to automate change management, versioning.
>
> So, what if concepts, relationships, etc. of ontologies are not "data
> structures" but rather assemblages of semantic agents? What if documents
> are not "content objects," but rather assemblages of semantic agents at
> the most granular level? What if services and behaviors of software are
> not expressed as procedural "objects" but rather assemblages of
> declarative semantic agents? What if all forms of intellectual property
> in a pervasive computing ecosystem are autonomic and expressed as
> declarative semantic agents.?
>
> Mills
>
>
> On Aug 4, 2007, at 5:10 AM, Danny Ayers wrote:
>
>
> What a wonderful thread!
>
> It's well-timed for me, having recently rediscovered an enthusiasm for
> software agents (specifically on the web, write-up in progress...).
>
> It looks like agent & agency are more of those terms that seem really
> hard to pin down. The definitions[1] that Google's aware of (meta-pun
> intended) seem to be split between acting on a person's behalf, or
> being in some way animated. Neither of which really avoids John's
> "miracle".
>
> But I do think, for_practical_purposes, the notion of an agent is
> really helpful. For example, it might be reasonable to model a large
> pebble as an inanimate object. But that large pebble might be acting
> as a door stop. It seems a lot easier to say that the pebble is an
> agent which doesn't really do a great deal than to say it's an
> inanimate thing that under certain circumstances can take on
> quasi-active roles.
>
> I'm not sure, but I suspect the neatest way of reflecting this kind of
> thing in software is for the agent to have "self-awareness" in the
> form of descriptive data, accessible through a standard protocol. The
> default situation, as in a pebble's case, would just be a
> question/answer that would go something like: "you there?"..."yep, I'm
> here". If it was holding the door open, the relationship between the
> pebble and the door would also be encoded in the self-description.
> (Ok, I admit I'm thinking that pebble, door and relationship should
> all have URIs dereferencable with HTTP).
>
> Hmm, that was a bit tangential...what I'm trying to say is that there
> are likely to be fewer surprises if everything is modelled as being
> potentially active, rather than drawing the distinction, i.e.
> everything is miraculous.
>
> Cheers,
> Danny.
>
> [1] http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3A+agent
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