A Human Organization Analogy for Self Systems

Topics:
Electrical and Electronic
Tags:
Analogy,
Carnegie-Mellon University,
Human Resources,
Workforce Management
Source:
Carnegie Mellon University

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Overview: The paper reveals that the structure and operation of human organizations, such as corporations, offer useful insights to designers of self-systems (a.k.a. self-managing or autonomic). Examples include worker/supervisor hierarchies, avoidance of micro-management, and complaint-based tuning. This paper explores the analogy, and describes the design of a self-storage system that borrows from it.

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Format: PDF | Size: 67KB | Date: Jun 2003 | Pages: 6

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