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In this preliminary report, we propose an agent-oriented approach to the design of organisational information systems, called Agent-Object-Relationship (AOR) modelling, where an entity is either an object, an agent, an event, an action, a claim, or a commitment, and where special relationships between agent classes and event, action, claim and commitment types supplement the fundamental association, composition and specialisation relationship types of Entity-Relationship modelling. In this approach, an organisation is viewed as a complex institutional agent defining the rights and duties of its sub-agents that act on behalf of it, and being involved in a number of interactions with external agents. An organisational information system, then, is viewed as an artificial agent possessing a global view of the organisation and interacting both with sub-agents and with external agents. We argue that AOR modelling offers a research perspective to integrate the static, dynamic and deontic aspects of an organisational information system.
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Wagner, G. (2001). Agent-Oriented Analysis and Design of Organisational Information Systems. In: Barzdins, J., Caplinskas, A. (eds) Databases and Information Systems. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9636-7_9
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