Index
A
- abstraction of agency, Proxies for Human Agency
- actions versus intentions, A Quick User Guide
- actively broken promises, Broken Promises
- adaptability, Systemic Promises
- adjacency matrices, Other Circular Promises
- agency, meaning of, Just Make It Happen
- agent relativity, Relativity: Many Worlds, Branches, and Their Observers
- agents
- assessment of keeping promises, Keeping Promises
- autonomous, Autonomy Leads to Greater Certainty
- behaviour of autonomous agents as emergent, Emergent Phenomena as Collective Equilibria: Forming Superagents
- components as analogous to, What Do We Mean by Components?
- cooperating individually in decentralized approach, Societies and Functional Roles
- fluorescent lights as system of cooperative agents, Focused Interventions or Sweeping Policies?
- having components (superagents), Can Agents Themselves Have Components? (Superagents)
- inanimate, proxies for human agency, Proxies for Human Agency
- incentives to make promises, A Quick User Guide
- incompleteness of their worldview, Is Promise Theory Really a Theory?
- increasing redundancy for better promise keeping, Cooperating for Availability and the Redundancy Conundrum
- independence or separation of concerns, A Quick User Guide
- not making promises about others, A Quick User Guide
- perception of roles, How Promises Define Agent-Perceived Roles
- responsibility for keeping promises, Who Is Responsible for Keeping Promises?
- reusability, Reusability of Components
- stability of intent or erratic behaviour, Stability of Intent: Erratic Behaviour?
- turning data into knowledge, Passing Information Around
- voluntary subordination between, Agreement as Promises: Consensus of Intent
- agreement
- algorithms, in promises and assessment, What We Mean by Assessment
- anti-fragile, Cooperating for Availability and the Redundancy Conundrum
- APIs (application programming interfaces), Naming Promisee Usage (-) Rather than Function (+)
- application containers, Avoiding Conflicting Promises by Branching into Separate Worlds
- assembly lines, Transformation Chains or Assembly Lines
- assessment of promises, The Main Concepts, Assessing Promises-Some Exercises
- agent relativity and, Relativity: Many Worlds, Branches, and Their Observers
- conditional promises, The Laws of Conditional Promising
- definition of assessment, What We Mean by Assessment
- economics of promise value, The Economics of Promise Value: Beneficial Outcomes
- human reliability, Human Reliability
- inferred promises and emergent behaviour, Inferred Promises: Emergent Behaviour
- kinds of assessment, Kinds of Promise Assessment
- promises defining agent-perceived roles, How Promises Define Agent-Perceived Roles
- relativity and levels of perception, Relativity and Levels of Perception
- assisted promises, Assisted Promises
- atomic theory, Promise Theory as a type of, Is Promise Theory Really a Theory?
- attacks, The Eye of the Beholder
- automation, for policing continuity of intent, Continuity of Delivery and Intent
- autonomous agents, Autonomy Leads to Greater Certainty
- autonomy
- availability, Promising Consistency Across Multiple Agents and CAP
- Axelrod, Robert, The Stability of Cooperation: What Axelrod Said
B
- backward compatibility, Backward Compatibility
- backwards compatibility, Backwards Compatibility Means Continuity of Intent
- ballistic or deterministic reasoning, Logic and Reasoning: The Limitations of Branching and Linear Thinking
- belief assessment, Kinds of Promise Assessment
- bifurcations (or branchings) of outcomes, Complexity, Separation, and Modularity
- Boolean logic, Logic and Reasoning: The Limitations of Branching and Linear Thinking
- bottlenecks, The Collapse of Complex Systems
- bottom-up strategy, A Quick User Guide
- boundary of control, The Myth of System and User
- bounded rationality, Is Promise Theory Really a Theory?
- brain model, centralized architecture as, Organization: Centralization Versus Decentralization
- branches and forks (git), The Art of Versioning
- branding, Names and Identifiers for “Branding” Component Promises
- broken promises, Broken Promises
C
- CAP (consistency, availability, and partitions), Relativity of Information-The World Is My Database, I Shall Not Want
- categories
- causality, Thinking in Straight Lines
- central master approach to equilibrating data, Guiding the Outcome of Cooperation When It Is Emergent
- centralization versus decentralization in models of control, Organization: Centralization Versus Decentralization
- centralized validation model, Guiding the Outcome of Cooperation When It Is Emergent
- certainty
- CFEngine, Continuity of Delivery and Intent
- circular dependencies, Circular Conditional Bindings: The Deadlock Carousel
- circular promises, Other Circular Promises
- client-server model, The Client-Server Model
- clients, Promising Consistency Across Multiple Agents and CAP
- cloud computing, Fragile Promises in Component Design
- command sequences, Agreement in Groups
- commands
- compatibility of components, Compatibility of Components
- complexity in systems, Complexity, Separation, and Modularity
- component systems, engineering, Engineering Component Systems-Some Exercises
- agents having components (superagents), Can Agents Themselves Have Components? (Superagents)
- art of versioning, The Art of Versioning
- compatibility of components, Compatibility of Components
- component choices that can't be changed, Component Choices That You Can’t Go Back On
- component design and roles, Component Design and Roles
- componentization, Componentization: Divide and Build!
- components, defined, What Do We Mean by Components?
- conduits and pipes, Components Need to Be Assembled
- cost of modularity, The Cost of Modularity
- designing promises for a market, Designing Promises for a Market
- fragile promises in component design, Fragile Promises in Component Design
- imposing requirements and false expectations, Imposing Requirements: False Expectations
- interchangeability of components, Interchangeability of Components
- law of the lowest common denominator, Law of the Lowest Common Denominator
- names and identifiers for branding component promises, Names and Identifiers for “Branding” Component Promises
- naming promisee usage rather than function, Naming Promisee Usage (-) Rather than Function (+)
- necessity for components to be assembled, Components Need to Be Assembled
- promises for realism in design of component systems, Backward Compatibility
- reusability of components, Reusability of Components
- upgrading and regression testing of components, Upgrading and Regression Testing of Components
- compromise, Mutual Bindings and Equilibrium of Agreement
- conditional promises, Conditional Promises—and Deceptions
- analogy to embedded components, What Do We Mean by Components?
- assisted promises, Assisted Promises
- circular conditional bindings and deadlocks, Circular Conditional Bindings: The Deadlock Carousel
- conditional causation and dependencies, Conditional Causation and Dependencies
- conditions as safety valves, The Curse of Conditions, Safety Valves
- delivery chain with, Delivery Chains with Promises
- laws of, The Laws of Conditional Promising
- local quenching of conditionals, Local Quenching of Conditionals
- logic and reasoning, Logic and Reasoning: The Limitations of Branching and Linear Thinking
- conflicts
- consensus, Mutual Bindings and Equilibrium of Agreement, Human Error or Misplaced Intent?
- consistency, Promising Consistency Across Multiple Agents and CAP, C Is for Consistency
- availability and, A Is for Availability
- data in distributed systems, Guiding the Outcome of Cooperation When It Is Emergent
- local consistency in information systems, The World Is My Database, I Shall Not Want
- of agents' knowledge, Equilibrium and Common Knowledge, Equilibrium and Common Knowledge
- of viewpoint in distributed systems, Relativity of Information
- relative viewpoints and, Relativity: Many Worlds, Branches, and Their Observers
- constancy of intent, maintaining, Stability of Intent: Erratic Behaviour?
- contention, in the data center, Fragile Promises in Component Design
- contentious or competitive components, Fragile Promises in Component Design
- context, in promises and assessment, What We Mean by Assessment
- continuity, Systemic Promises
- continuous delivery, Avoiding Many Worlds’ Branches by Converging on Target
- continuous integration (convergence), Avoiding Many Worlds’ Branches by Converging on Target, Assessing a Service by Promising to Use It (Testing)
- contracts, signing, Contracts and Signing
- convergence, aim of promises, Logic and Reasoning: The Limitations of Branching and Linear Thinking
- cooperation, Promise Engineering
- as goal of Promise Theory, A Quick User Guide
- conditions as severe obstacle to, The Curse of Conditions, Safety Valves
- economic explanation of, Is Promise Theory Really a Theory?
- emergent phenomena as collective equilibria, Emergent Phenomena as Collective Equilibria: Forming Superagents
- engineering, Engineering Cooperation-Some Exercises
- agreement as promises, Agreement as Promises: Consensus of Intent
- agreement in groups, Agreement in Groups
- autonomous agents, Engineering Autonomous Agents
- avoiding conflicts of interest, Avoiding Conflicts of Interest
- broken promises, Broken Promises
- contracts and signing, Contracts and Signing
- contractual agreement, Contractual Agreement
- cooperating for availability, Cooperating for Availability and the Redundancy Conundrum
- guiding outcome of emergent cooperation, Guiding the Outcome of Cooperation When It Is Emergent
- human error or misplaced intent, Human Error or Misplaced Intent?
- incompatible promises, Incompatible Promises: Conflicts of Intent
- mutual bindings and equilibrium of agreement, Mutual Bindings and Equilibrium of Agreement
- need to be needed, The Need to Be Needed: Reinterpreting an Innate Incentive?
- offering incentives, Promoting Cooperation by Incentive: Beneficial Outcome
- organization, centralization or decentralization, Organization: Centralization Versus Decentralization
- prerequisites for cooperation, What Are the Prerequisites for Cooperation?
- relationships, Relationships: What Dunbar Said
- responsibility for keeping promises, Who Is Responsible for Keeping Promises?
- societies and functional roles, Societies and Functional Roles
- stability of cooperation, The Stability of Cooperation: What Axelrod Said
- stability of intent or erratic behaviour, Stability of Intent: Erratic Behaviour?
- imposition of intent as obstacle to, Imposing Requirements: False Expectations
- polarity of give and take, Cooperation: The Polarity of Give and Take
- roles by, How Promises Define Agent-Perceived Roles
- themes in, Engineering Autonomous Agents
- voluntary, services as outcome of, The Client-Server Model
- correlation, confusion with causality, What Things Can’t Be Promised?
- credit, The Economics of Promise Value: Beneficial Outcomes
- culture
- customer is always right, Law of the Lowest Common Denominator
D
- data centers, contention in, Fragile Promises in Component Design
- data consistency problem, Relativity: Many Worlds, Branches, and Their Observers
- database theory (see CAP)
- deadlocks
- decentralization versus centralization in models of control, Organization: Centralization Versus Decentralization
- decentralized control model, Societies and Functional Roles
- decentralized validation model, Guiding the Outcome of Cooperation When It Is Emergent
- deceptions or lies
- declarative or desired end-state pattern, Framing Promises as State or Action
- delivery chains
- dependencies
- deterministic reasoning, Logic and Reasoning: The Limitations of Branching and Linear Thinking
- DevOps movement, Imposing Requirements: False Expectations, Delivery Chains by Imposition
- directory services, Who Is Responsible for Keeping Promises?, Cooperating for Availability and the Redundancy Conundrum
- dispatchers, Dispatchers and Queues for Service on Demand
- distributed systems, Cooperation: The Polarity of Give and Take
- divergence
- DNS (Domain Name System), Who Is Responsible for Keeping Promises?
- Dunbar, Robin, Relationships: What Dunbar Said, The Art of Versioning
- dynamics
E
- ease of use, Systemic Promises
- economics
- eigenvalues, Other Circular Promises
- Einstein, Albert, Relativity of Information
- elastic scaling, Fragile Promises in Component Design
- elasticity, Systemic Promises
- emergent phenomena
- end-to-end delivery, Delivering Service Through Intermediaries or Proxies
- equilibration, Mutual Bindings and Equilibrium of Agreement
- erratic behaviour, Stability of Intent: Erratic Behaviour?
- errors, human error or misplaced intent, Human Error or Misplaced Intent?
- eventual consistency, Relativity: Many Worlds, Branches, and Their Observers, Guiding the Outcome of Cooperation When It Is Emergent
- evidential assessment, Kinds of Promise Assessment
- evolution, lack of intent in, Components Need to Be Assembled
- expectation
H
- handshakes, Delivery Chains with Promises
- human agency, proxies for, Proxies for Human Agency
- human brains, capabilities for managing relationships, Relationships: What Dunbar Said
- human intentions, modeled by Promise Theory, Is Promise Theory Really a Theory?
- human reliability, Human Reliability
- humans, Promise Theory applied to, Through the Lens of Promises
I
- idempotence, Logic and Reasoning: The Limitations of Branching and Linear Thinking
- identifiers for components, Names and Identifiers for “Branding” Component Promises
- if-then-else framework for reasoning, Logic and Reasoning: The Limitations of Branching and Linear Thinking
- imperative pattern, Framing Promises as State or Action
- impositions, Why Is a Promise Better than a Command?
- about specifications, Imposing Requirements: False Expectations
- as fire and forget events, The Client-Server Model
- defined, The Main Concepts
- delivery chain by imposition, Delivery Chains by Imposition
- in brain service model, Organization: Centralization Versus Decentralization
- intention and, An Imposition Too Far
- made by clients on servers, The Client-Server Model, Dispatchers and Queues for Service on Demand
- not bringing certainty, Nonlocality of Obligations, What Things Can’t Be Promised?
- on systems, Who Intends Systemic Promises?
- polarities with respect to agents' world, Cooperation: The Polarity of Give and Take
- promoting conflict, Avoiding Conflicts of Interest
- replacing with stable promises, Focused Interventions or Sweeping Policies?
- timeline of, Framing Promises as State or Action
- worldview in terms of, reformulating to promises, Reformulating Your World into Promises
- in kind, The Economics of Promise Value: Beneficial Outcomes
- incentives, From Commands to Promises, Who Is Responsible for Keeping Promises?
- indeterminism in assessment of outcome, Kinds of Promise Assessment
- indices, Knowledge Engineering
- inferred promises, Inferred Promises: Emergent Behaviour
- information, How Information Becomes Knowledge
- integrity, Systemic Promises
- intention, Autonomy Leads to Greater Certainty, With a License to Intend-Some Exercises
- agreement and consensus of intent, Agreement as Promises: Consensus of Intent
- as subordinate to dynamics of a situation, Guiding the Outcome of Cooperation When It Is Emergent
- components' separation from source of, What Systemic Promises Should Components Keep?
- conflicts of intent, A Quick User Guide, Incompatible Promises: Conflicts of Intent
- continuity of delivery and, Continuity of Delivery and Intent
- continuity of, backwards compatibility and, Backwards Compatibility Means Continuity of Intent
- defined, The Main Concepts
- documentation of intent, Human Reliability
- evolution and, Components Need to Be Assembled
- expression in promises, Why Is a Promise Better than a Command?
- human error or misplaced intent, Human Error or Misplaced Intent?
- human intentions modeled by Promise Theory, Is Promise Theory Really a Theory?
- interpretation of intent, The Need to Be Needed: Reinterpreting an Innate Incentive?
- keeping promises, Keeping Promises
- lifecycle of promises, The Lifecycle of Promises
- of systemic promises, Who Intends Systemic Promises?
- polarity of give and take, Cooperation: The Polarity of Give and Take
- promoting certainty, Promoting Certainty
- proxies for human agency, Proxies for Human Agency
- services leading to robust ecosystem of intent, The Client-Server Model
- source of intent distributed over multiple agents, Avoiding Conflicts of Interest
- stability of intent or erratic behaviour, Stability of Intent: Erratic Behaviour?
- symbiotic relationship of promises and trust, Promises and Trust Are Symbiotic
- versus actions or messages, A Quick User Guide
- interchangeability of components, Interchangeability of Components
- intermediaries
- Internet Protocol (IPv4), Component Choices That You Can’t Go Back On
- Internet, distributed cooperation by network, Who Is Responsible for Keeping Promises?
- intuition, promises made by appeal to, Human Reliability
- IP and MAC network layers, Delivery Chains with Promises
- IT networks, example of cooperation, What Are the Prerequisites for Cooperation?
K
- kinematics, Isn’t That Quasi-Science?
- knowledge and information, Knowledge and Information-Some Exercises
- arranging for agents to become knowledgeable, Knowledge: The Mystery Cat
- availability, A Is for Availability
- categories as roles made into many world branches, Categories Are Roles Made into Many World Branches
- consistency, C Is for Consistency
- equilibrium and common knowledge, Equilibrium and Common Knowledge
- how information becomes knowledge, How Information Becomes Knowledge
- integrity of knowledge through intermediaries, Integrity of Information Through Intermediaries
- knowledge engineering, Knowledge Engineering
- partition tolerance, P Is for Partition Tolerance
- passing information around, Passing Information Around
- promising consistency across multiple agents, CAP and, Promising Consistency Across Multiple Agents and CAP
- relativity of information, Relativity of Information
- superagent aggregation, Superagent Aggregation (Expialidocious)
- the world as a database, The World Is My Database, I Shall Not Want
- thinking in straight lines, Thinking in Straight Lines
L
- leadership, cooperation by, Emergent Phenomena as Collective Equilibria: Forming Superagents
- legal agreements, Contractual Agreement
- lifecycle of promises, The Lifecycle of Promises
- linear thinking, limitations of, Logic and Reasoning: The Limitations of Branching and Linear Thinking
- load balancers, Dispatchers and Queues for Service on Demand
- load-balancing conundrum, Cooperating for Availability and the Redundancy Conundrum
- local consistency, The World Is My Database, I Shall Not Want
- locality, Promoting Cooperation by Incentive: Beneficial Outcome
- logic and reasoning
- lowest common denominator, law of, Law of the Lowest Common Denominator
M
- many worlds, The Art of Versioning, The World Is My Database, I Shall Not Want
- marketing, Inferred Promises: Emergent Behaviour
- mechanics, Isn’t That Quasi-Science?
- modularity, cost of, The Cost of Modularity
- molecular receptors on cells, Components Need to Be Assembled
- money, The Economics of Promise Value: Beneficial Outcomes
- Monte Carlo methods, When Being Not of One Mind Is an Advantage
- motive, in promises and assessment, What We Mean by Assessment
- muscle memory (limbic system), Focused Interventions or Sweeping Policies?
- Myers-Briggs personality typing, Stability of Intent: Erratic Behaviour?
P
- packages of software, naming, Names and Identifiers for “Branding” Component Promises
- packaging, making emergent behaviours explicit, Inferred Promises: Emergent Behaviour
- parallelization, Logic and Reasoning: The Limitations of Branching and Linear Thinking
- paralysis and deadlock, avoiding, How Promises Define Agent-Perceived Roles
- parameterization
- partition tolerance, Promising Consistency Across Multiple Agents and CAP, P Is for Partition Tolerance
- passively broken promises, Broken Promises
- PBM (see policy-based management)
- peer-to-peer approach to equilibrating data, Guiding the Outcome of Cooperation When It Is Emergent
- pipes, Components Need to Be Assembled
- policy-based management (PBM), Framing Promises as State or Action
- prejudice, as basis of expectation, What We Mean by Assessment
- promise bindings, How Much Does a Promise Binding Count?
- promise proposals, Culture and Psychology, Contractual Agreement
- Promise Theory, Promises and Impositions
- promisees, Promisees, Stakeholders, and Trading Promises
- promisers, Promisees, Stakeholders, and Trading Promises
- promises, Promise Engineering
- agreement as, Agreement as Promises: Consensus of Intent
- and need to be needed, The Need to Be Needed: Reinterpreting an Innate Incentive?
- assessing, Assessing Promises-Some Exercises
- attributing to non-human agents, A Quick User Guide
- branching into different worlds, Avoiding Conflicting Promises by Branching into Separate Worlds
- branding component promises, names and identifiers for, Names and Identifiers for “Branding” Component Promises
- broken, Broken Promises
- changes in, by service providers, The Versioning Problem Again
- changing, effects of, Stability of Intent: Erratic Behaviour?
- client maintaining continued promise relationship, The Client-Server Model
- commands versus, From Commands to Promises
- computer programming versus, Logic and Reasoning: The Limitations of Branching and Linear Thinking
- cultural and psychological reasons for advantages of, Culture and Psychology
- deceptions or lies, What Things Can’t Be Promised?
- delivery chain with
- designing for a market, Designing Promises for a Market
- end-to-end integrity, End-to-End Integrity
- exercise in thinking in terms of, An Exercise
- failure to keep, A Quick User Guide
- for realism in design, Backward Compatibility
- fragile, in component design, Fragile Promises in Component Design
- framing as state or action, Framing Promises as State or Action
- giving and taking, matching of, Components Need to Be Assembled
- how to think in terms of, A Quick User Guide
- human versus machine-like behaviour, Human Error or Misplaced Intent?
- identical versus exclusive, and reuse of components, The Art of Versioning
- incentives and, From Commands to Promises
- incompatible, and conflicts of intent, Incompatible Promises: Conflicts of Intent
- interchangeability of components and, Interchangeability of Components
- keeping, Keeping Promises
- lowest common denominator, Law of the Lowest Common Denominator
- minimum requirement for, What Things Can’t Be Promised?
- of components, What Systemic Promises Should Components Keep?
- polarities with respect to agents' world, Cooperation: The Polarity of Give and Take
- promise approach to knowledge, Knowledge Engineering
- reformulating issues as, What Issues Do We Make Promises About?
- replacing impositions with stable promises, Focused Interventions or Sweeping Policies?
- responsibility for keeping, Who Is Responsible for Keeping Promises?
- seeing world in terms of, rather than impositions, Reformulating Your World into Promises
- service delivery chains with, Delivery Chains with Promises
- services and, Service Engineering
- superiority to commands, Why Is a Promise Better than a Command?
- symbiotic relationship with trust, Promises and Trust Are Symbiotic
- things that can and can't be promised, What Things Can Be Promised?
- thinking in, lessons learned from, Through the Lens of Promises
- Unix operating system, stdin, stdout, and stderr, Components Need to Be Assembled
- version-specific, for components, The Art of Versioning
- protocols, Agreement in Groups
- proxies
- pull versus push model of the world, A Quick User Guide
- purpose, With a License to Intend
R
- randomness, methods of computation relying on, When Being Not of One Mind Is an Advantage
- reasoning (see logic and reasoning)
- receptors, Components Need to Be Assembled
- reciprocity, Promoting Cooperation by Incentive: Beneficial Outcome
- reductionism, taxonomic decompositions as, Superagent Aggregation (Expialidocious)
- redundancy, Systemic Promises
- regression testing of components, Upgrading and Regression Testing of Components
- relationships, Relationships: What Dunbar Said
- relativity
- reliability, human, Human Reliability
- reliable services, Delivery Chains with Promises
- repetition or learning, in improving availability, Cooperating for Availability and the Redundancy Conundrum
- requirements
- resilience, Systemic Promises
- responsibility
- reusability
- reusable patterns, component systems and, Componentization: Divide and Build!
- roles
S
- scalability, Systemic Promises
- scaling
- science, objectivity versus subjectivity, Isn’t That Quasi-Science?
- scope of intention, The Main Concepts
- search engines, Knowledge Engineering
- searching, approaches to, Stability of Intent: Erratic Behaviour?
- security, Systemic Promises
- semantics
- separation of concerns, Engineering Component Systems
- serialization, Logic and Reasoning: The Limitations of Branching and Linear Thinking
- servers, Promising Consistency Across Multiple Agents and CAP
- service engineering, Service Engineering-Some Exercises
- assessing a service by promising to use it, Assessing a Service by Promising to Use It (Testing)
- avoiding conflicting promises by branching into separate worlds, Avoiding Conflicting Promises by Branching into Separate Worlds
- backwards compatibility and continuity of intent, Backwards Compatibility Means Continuity of Intent
- chains of intermediaries, Chains of Intermediaries
- client-server model, The Client-Server Model
- continuity of delivery and intent, Continuity of Delivery and Intent
- delivering service through intermediaries or proxies, Delivering Service Through Intermediaries or Proxies
- delivery chain by imposition, Delivery Chains by Imposition
- delivery chains with promises, Delivery Chains with Promises
- dispatchers and queues for service on demand, Dispatchers and Queues for Service on Demand
- end-to-end integrity, End-to-End Integrity
- framing promises as state or action, Framing Promises as State or Action
- many worlds' branches, avoiding by converging on target, Avoiding Many Worlds’ Branches by Converging on Target
- representing promises with more than one proxy in delivery chain, Formality Helps the Medicine Go Down
- responsibility for service delivery, Responsibility for Service Delivery
- transformation chains or assembly lines, Transformation Chains or Assembly Lines
- versioning problem, The Versioning Problem Again
- service promises, Reformulating Your World into Promises
- service-level agreements, Contractual Agreement
- Service-Oriented Architecture (see SOA)
- services
- signalling model, Organization: Centralization Versus Decentralization
- signatures as promises, Contracts and Signing
- siloing, The Collapse of Complex Systems
- simultaneity, Relativity of Information
- single point of failure, Cooperating for Availability and the Redundancy Conundrum
- SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture), Culture and Psychology
- societies, collapse of, The Collapse of Complex Systems
- society model, Organization: Centralization Versus Decentralization
- specialization, Societies and Functional Roles, The Collapse of Complex Systems
- specifications, Proxies for Human Agency
- stability, Systemic Promises
- stakeholders, Promisees, Stakeholders, and Trading Promises
- standalone or independent components, What Do We Mean by Components?
- stdin, stdout, and stderr (Unix systems), Components Need to Be Assembled
- stories
- subjectivity
- subordination, voluntary, between agents, Agreement as Promises: Consensus of Intent
- superagents, How Promises Define Agent-Perceived Roles, Can Agents Themselves Have Components? (Superagents)
- swarm intelligence, Components Need to Be Assembled
- systems, promises of, Systemic Promises-Through the Lens of Promises
- breaking down systemic promises for real agencies, Breaking Down the Systemic Promises for Real Agencies
- collapse of complex systems, The Collapse of Complex Systems
- complexity, separation, and modularity, Complexity, Separation, and Modularity
- lessons from thinking in promises, Through the Lens of Promises
- myth of system and user, The Myth of System and User
- promises expected from a system, Systemic Promises
- reasons for success or failure in keeping promises, Why Do Systems Succeed or Fail in Keeping Promises?
- systems, defined, What Is a System?
- who intends systemic promises, Who Intends Systemic Promises?
T
- Tainter, Joseph, The Collapse of Complex Systems
- TCP and UDP transport layer services, Delivery Chains with Promises
- testing, service quality and, Assessing a Service by Promising to Use It (Testing)
- tidiness, and separation of concerns, Engineering Component Systems
- timelines
- top-down strategy, A Quick User Guide
- trade, The Economics of Promise Value: Beneficial Outcomes
- transformation chains, Transformation Chains or Assembly Lines
- trust
- as basis for expectation, What We Mean by Assessment
- blind trust for fire and forget imposition pattern, Delivery Chains by Imposition
- chain of, in end-to-end delivery, End-to-End Integrity
- changing promises and, Stability of Intent: Erratic Behaviour?
- in assisted promises, Assisted Promises
- in conditional promises, The Laws of Conditional Promising
- issues with circular dependencies, Circular Conditional Bindings: The Deadlock Carousel
- role in cooperation in groups, Agreement in Groups
- symbiotic relationship with promises, Promises and Trust Are Symbiotic
- use of promises with, The Observer Is Always Right
V
- validation models, centralized versus decentralized, Guiding the Outcome of Cooperation When It Is Emergent
- value, The Economics of Promise Value: Beneficial Outcomes
- how it arises, Promoting Cooperation by Incentive: Beneficial Outcome
- in consistency and expectation, Promising Consistency Across Multiple Agents and CAP
- lasting value with repetition and persistently kept promises, The Stability of Cooperation: What Axelrod Said
- of promises, assessing, Promisees, Stakeholders, and Trading Promises
- passing on a value received in trust, Equilibrium and Common Knowledge
- promises with perceived value, Promoting Cooperation by Incentive: Beneficial Outcome
- relativity of, in Promise Theory, The Economics of Promise Value: Beneficial Outcomes
- version branching (divergence), Avoiding Conflicting Promises by Branching into Separate Worlds, Assessing a Service by Promising to Use It (Testing)
- versioning
- viewpoints, relative, confronting, Relativity: Many Worlds, Branches, and Their Observers
- virtual computational components, The Cost of Modularity
- virtual machines, Avoiding Conflicting Promises by Branching into Separate Worlds
- voluntary behaviour, Autonomy Leads to Greater Certainty
- voluntary cooperation, A Quick User Guide
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