OperettA: Organization-Oriented Development Environment

The increasing complexity of distributed applications requires new modeling and engineering approaches. Such domains require representing the regulating structures explicitly and independently from the acting components (or agents). Organization computational models, based on Organization Theory, have been advocated to specify such systems. In this paper, we present the organizational modeling approach OperA and a graphical environment for the specification and analysis of organizational models, OperettA. OperA provides an expressive way for defining open organizations distinguishing explicitly between the organizational aims, and the agents who act in it. That is, OperA enables the specification of organizational structures, requirements and objectives, and at the same time allows participants to have the freedom to act according to their own capabilities and demands. OperettA takes a Model Driven Engineering approach combining different formal methods and enables model validation.

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