Triply Articulated Modelling of the Anticipatory Enterprise

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Triply Articulated Modelling of the Anticipatory Enterprise

Philip Boxer, Boxer Research Ltd.

Professor Bernard Cohen, City U., London


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The Parable of the Frozen Bird


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The Morals of the Tale

The guy who gets you into the

is not necessarily your enemy.

The guy who gets you out of the

is not necessarily your friend.

When you’re up to your neck in

don’t sing about it.


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Flaws Generate Risks of Error

Error of execution (Performance Risk)inability to sustain the performance of the capabilities one requires to provide the service.

Error of planning (Composition Risk)inability to ensure the validity of one’s approach to composing capabilities in order to deliver the service.

Error of intention (Implementation Risk)inability to guarantee that the service will satisfy the client’s need when deployed in her context-of-use.


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Asymmetric DemandSymmetric Demand

the market is defined in terms of what the supplier can provide supplier assumes that demand is independent of clients’ contexts-of-use.

strategic stance is positional, client is a customer,service is a commodity, power is held at the centre,implementation risk is ignored

Has successfully provided a vast variety of commoditised, cheap, globally accessible, networked services, but leads clients to expect services specific to their context-of-use.

Asymmetric demanddemand is defined in relation to the client’s context-of-use

forces the supplier toadopt relational strategies,take power to the edge, where multiple contexts-of-use are authorisedand make the enterprises agile enough to satisfy the variety of demand.


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Collaborative Composition

directedintegration

collaborativecomposition

build andparameterise

single multiple(system of systems)

multiple

single

organisation of supplymodel of how-it-works

organisation of demandmodel of

use-in-context

PAN’s triple articulation provides the means of evaluating the risks encountered in taking

power to the edge.

build to specification

asymmetric demand

granularity,stratification andorchestration of components depend on context-of use


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The Existential Articulationontology of supply

a relational model of the actor's knowledge of how her world behavesin terms of:

processes: closed systems that, as material causes, change (public) states-of-affairs

events: states-of-affairs that are observed to pertain after a process

coordinations: collections of processes (and/or coordinations, recursively) that are observed to occur together in some purposeful way.


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The Deontic Articulation

outcomes: observable states-of-affairs;

transformations: mechanisms that alter outcomes; and

synchronisations: collections of outcomes (and/or synchronisations, recursively) that may be made to occur together.

ontology of intenta relational model of the actor’s ontology of controllability

in terms of


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Existential DeonticThe existential and deontic articulations are composed by asserting mappings that implicate existential events in deontic outcomes.

This composite articulation denotesthe repertoire of behaviour paths known to the actor —

the space in which she, as efficient cause, can construct and execute plans.

Which plans she chooses will depend onhow she values their implicated behaviour paths and outcomes.


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The Referential Articulationontology of demand

a relational model of the actor's ontology of herself as an anticipatory systemin terms of

drivers, which attribute value to the actor's experience (by being, more or less, 'satisfied' by paths-of-behaviour);

demand situations, states-of-affairs whose coming to pass is anticipated to be of value with respect to certain drivers; and

value ladders, in which the experience of collections (recursively) of certain demand situations is anticipated to be of value with respect to certain other drivers.


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Defining Granularity and Stratification

Each of the six strata is a binary relation, or simplicial complex, expressed at a level of granularity necessary to relatecontext-of-use to the underlying use of components

compositetriple

articulation

Referential ArticulationOntology of demand

Existential Articulation

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Implementation risk

Collaborative

composition

Performance risk

Composition risknon-commutative

pruning operator

Supplyside

Demandside

6. context-of-use

5. usage

4. system ofsystems

3. system

2. sub-system

1. component


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Landscapes

Absence of congruencebetween the landscapes

indicates exposure to risk(in this case, composition)

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system-of-systems

services

strategies

simplices

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extendedQ-analysis

any pair of adjacent

simplicial complexes

system

3outcomes

In this casea ‘peak’ represents linkages between constituent services

each subjected

to

produces a pair of landscapes

simplices

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