Dados o conjunto de processos mais complexos e com múltiplas interfaces (troca de informações, com diversos atores envolvidos na tomada de decisão, ou notificação, interagindo com sistemas computacionais em diversas dessas partes), é clara a necessidade de se entender o papel da coordenação neste contexto.
Talvez o trabalho de Malone (MIT) ajude.
It should also be clear that coordination, as we have defined it, can occur in many kinds of systems: human, computational, biological, and others. For instance, questions about how people manage dependencies among their activities are central to parts of organization theory, economics, management science, sociology, social psychology, anthropology, linguistics, law, and political science. In computer systems, dependencies between different computational processes must certainly be managed, and, as numerous observers have pointed out, certain kinds of interactions among computational processes resemble interactions among people (e.g., Fox, 1981; Hewitt, 1986; Huberman, 1988a; 1988b; Miller & Drexler, 1988; Smith & Davis, 1981). To give a sense of the approaches different fields have taken to studying coordination, we summarize in Appendix B examples of results about coordination from computer science, organization theory, economics, and biology.
2. A FRAMEWORK FOR STUDYING COORDINATION |