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What is Transaction Agent Modelling

Handbook of Research on Socio-Technical Design and Social Networking Systems
Transaction Agent Modelling refers to a framework employing conceptual graphs for enriching the requirements gathering process for multi-agent systems. The chapter uses transaction agent modeling as a formalism of choice to model social complexity.
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Socio-Technical Systems and Knowledge Representation
Ivan Launders (Sheffield Hallam University, UK)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-264-0.ch037
Abstract
The UK National Health Service (NHS) provides the opportunity to undertake local socio-technical system design to help staff maximize the opportunities of using mobile technology whilst minimizing the impact of change to existing patient systems. A real-world example from a local NHS socio-technical system is considered, that contains a collection of mobile clinicians and technology which provides home care to patients. The success of the Mobile NHS service has a high dependency upon the social aspects of the solution and draws upon a combination of people, resources, technology and economic events. This chapter considers multiagent system architectures, to model social complexity, and capture system knowledge, and then outlines a prototyping technique as a means of implementing and testing the design model. It concludes that the practice of implementing a prototype ontology provides a valuable step in clarifying meaning and understanding of concepts at the outset.
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