Service-oriented Communities and Fractal Social Organizations - Models and concepts for a Smarter Planet
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The document discusses the urgent need for rethinking organizations, particularly in the context of service-oriented communities and fractal social organizations. It identifies three key requirements: engaging society as a resource, developing open and smart organizational structures, and promoting adaptive behaviors to enhance resilience. The conclusion emphasizes the potential of these models to address challenges in various domains, including healthcare, and highlights ongoing interest from organizations like IBM.
![• Conjecture: Biologically inspired distributed
organizations will play a key role in the
emergence of collective intelligent responses
Holarchies and fractal organizations
• “Simultaneously a part & a whole, a container & a
contained, a controller & a controlled” [Sou00]
Networks of peer-levels (members).
16April 2, 2014 IBM Faculty Award Ceremony
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![• Behavior: “change w.r.t. surroundings” [RW43]
• Purposeful, reactive, proactive behaviors
• Needs:
1. Resilient behaviors: change aiming at
preserving identity
2. Antifragile behaviors: change that preserves
identity AND learns how to improve
system-environment fit
Three key requirements... 3) BEHAVIOUR
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Mutual Assistance Community
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ABC Shop
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Doctor
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publication
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Service-oriented Communities and Fractal Social Organizations - Models and concepts for a Smarter Planet
- 1. Service-oriented Communities and Fractal Social Organizations Models and concepts for a Smarter Planet Vincenzo De Florio PATS / University of Antwerp & iMinds
- 2. Structure • PATS/Adaptive-and-dependable systems • Urgent need: Rethinking organizations • Conjecture: Three key requirements • A building block: Service-oriented community • A model: Fractal social organizations • Conclusions. 2April 2, 2014 IBM Faculty Award Ceremony
- 3. PATS/Adaptive-and-Dependable Systems • Systems designed so as to maintain functional and non- functional identity • Elasticity, resilience, antifragility April 2, 2014 IBM Faculty Award Ceremony
- 4. Structure • PATS/Adaptive-and-dependable systems • Urgent need: Rethinking organizations • Conjecture: Three key requirements • Building block: Service-oriented communities • Model: Fractal social organizations • Conclusions 5April 2, 2014 IBM Faculty Award Ceremony
- 5. Times, they are a-changin’… 6 Less resources Higher peaks of requests Higher number of users… ICT Energy product- ion & distribution Businesses Transport of goods & people Water treatment & distribution Healthcare… Understanding & rethinking our organizations is crucial! April 2, 2014 IBM Faculty Award Ceremony
- 6. With the meter in the red zone… • …organizations that appeared to work fine reveal their limitations! lose too much use up too many resources do not scale well intolerable to changes fail to address new aspects → Traditional approaches are reaching structural limits. 7April 2, 2014 IBM Faculty Award Ceremony
- 7. An example: healthcare 8 From www.fifthplay.com • New context reveals the limitations of the traditional approach April 2, 2014 IBM Faculty Award Ceremony
- 8. The healthcare crisis • Unmanageability is approaching How should we rethink healthcare? • Starting point: Three observations: Society at large is not part of the solution Too many resources are wasted No complex behaviors are expected from the vast majority of the components Organization (mostly hierarchical) is inflexible, does not scale well, incurs huge costs… 9 Three key aspects: Society, organization, behaviour April 2, 2014 IBM Faculty Award Ceremony
- 9. Structure • PATS/Adaptive-and-dependable systems • Urgent need: Rethinking organizations • Conjecture: Three key requirements • Building block: Service-oriented communities • Model: Fractal social organizations • Conclusions 10April 2, 2014 IBM Faculty Award Ceremony
- 10. 1) SOCIETY 11 • A purely technical solution simply… does not work! Hardin’s “Tragedy of the Commons”
- 11. • Society must be part of the solution • Society ≡ abundant, mobile “resources” able to exercise complex action • Need: engineer ways to tap into the nearly unlimited sources of “social energy” of our societies. 12 Three key requirements... 1) SOCIETY April 2, 2014 IBM Faculty Award Ceremony
- 12. 26 November 2012 13SITIS 2012 We have met the solution. And the solution… is US!
- 13. • Organizational / architectural choices define the features of our systems • Classic model: quasi-closed, hierarchical systems incapable of any complex interoperability. Three key requirements...2)ORGANIZATION 14April 2, 2014 IBM Faculty Award Ceremony
- 14. • Need: open smart organizations Self-optimizing Inter-organizational collective strategies Mutualistic relationships; collaborative sharing of data and resources… 15April 2, 2014 IBM Faculty Award Ceremony Three key requirements...2)ORGANIZATION
- 15. • Conjecture: Biologically inspired distributed organizations will play a key role in the emergence of collective intelligent responses Holarchies and fractal organizations • “Simultaneously a part & a whole, a container & a contained, a controller & a controlled” [Sou00] Networks of peer-levels (members). 16April 2, 2014 IBM Faculty Award Ceremony Three key requirements...2)ORGANIZATION
- 16. • Behavior: “change w.r.t. surroundings” [RW43] • Purposeful, reactive, proactive behaviors • Needs: 1. Resilient behaviors: change aiming at preserving identity 2. Antifragile behaviors: change that preserves identity AND learns how to improve system-environment fit Three key requirements... 3) BEHAVIOUR 17April 2, 2014 IBM Faculty Award Ceremony
- 17. Structure • PATS/Adaptive-and-dependable systems • Urgent need: Rethinking organizations • Conjecture: Three key requirements • Building block: Service-oriented communities • Model: Fractal social organizations • Conclusions 19April 2, 2014 IBM Faculty Award Ceremony
- 18. • Social organization built by explicitly addressing the mentioned aspects Taps into “social energy” Node of a distributed organization Supports complex resilient behaviours. Service-oriented communities 20April 2, 2014 IBM Faculty Award Ceremony
- 19. 21 Service provider Service requester Service registry Starting point: classical SOA model Publish Discover Bind Service description April 2, 2014 IBM Faculty Award Ceremony
- 20. Reasoning & coordination 22 Member Member Member w/ service & feature registry Service & feature SoC building block Publish Publish Bind Individual & social concerns optimization. Capabilities Policies Availability Location… Events People Devices SOCIETY BEHAVIOUR ORGANIZATION April 2, 2014 IBM Faculty Award Ceremony
- 21. Example: Mutual Assistance Community 23 ABC Shop Smart devices Informal service provider Commercial vender Doctor Community Access A smart house Coordination center (professional) OSGI Gateway Create OWL-S OWL-S service publication Service Request OWL-S service publication OWL-S service publication OWL-S Matcher OSGI bundle OSGI bundle OSGI bundle More info: [DeB10] April 2, 2014 IBM Faculty Award Ceremony
- 22. • We created a model of the collective behavior in a “flat” society of roles • Society = multiset of roles (=integers) • Example: S = {0,0, 1,1, 2, 3,3, 4,4} = 2 GPs, 2 nurses, 1 patient, 2 sensors, 2 cars SoC: Elements of a Model 26 November 2012 25SITIS 2012
- 23. • Example: Condition c takes place (for instance, a patient has fallen) • Consequence: Intervention of 1 GP and 1 nurse. Society S gets partitioned into two “blocks”: L = {0, 1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4} and R = {0, 1, 2}. SoC: Elements of a Model 26
- 24. • Inactive (L, c) ; Active (R, c) • (L(t), R(t))t≥0 : a dynamic system that tells how S evolves with time to respond to c’s • How does the space of all possible L’s and R’s look like? SoC: Elements of a Model 27
- 25. Modularity 28
- 26. Other properties: Modularity; Self-similarity 29April 2, 2014 IBM Faculty Award Ceremony
- 27. Structure • PATS/Adaptive-and-dependable systems • Urgent need: Rethinking organizations • Conjecture: Three key requirements • Building block: Service-oriented communities • Model: Fractal social organizations • Conclusions 30April 2, 2014 IBM Faculty Award Ceremony
- 28. • The SoC model provides us with key ideas Modularity; self-similarity; fractal dimension… • Major result: A hierarchy emerges from the flat society! We injected these ideas back into the model Fractal Social Organizations 26 November 2012 31SITIS 2012
- 29. 32 Member Member Service description SoC as a building block Publish Publish Bind Local Reasoning & coordination Individual & social concerns optimization Capabilities Policies Availability Location… Events People Devices MemberMember MemberMember Exception Event propagation Member w/ service & feature registry April 2, 2014 IBM Faculty Award Ceremony SoC’s
- 30. A fractal organization of SoC’s 33April 2, 2014 IBM Faculty Award Ceremony
- 31. • Members publish events, attributes, policies… • Events trigger analysis, planning, reaction, and re-organization • Exceptions propagate events to a higher level • Concept applicable to various domains AAL, crisis management, business organizations, etc. Fractal social organizations 35April 2, 2014 IBM Faculty Award Ceremony
- 33. • We introduced the main ideas of fractal social organizations Three key “principles”: Society, behaviour, organization • Much is yet to be done From principles to simulation & actual design From design to deployment & testing Formal models to guarantee resilience... Etc etc! Conclusions 37April 2, 2014 IBM Faculty Award Ceremony
- 34. • Much interest about this concept IBM! iMinds SuperMinds Project proposals for H2020 (Crises management; AAL) • Other ideas at http://eraclios.blogspot.be/ Conclusions 26 November 2012 38SITIS 2012
- 35. • Contact us through: vincenzo.deflorio@uantwerpen.be chris.blondia@uantwerpen.be Thanks! Conclusions 39April 2, 2014 IBM Faculty Award Ceremony