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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2016.17
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-61111
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2016/6111/
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Miller, Mark S. ; Tulloh, Bill

The Elements of Decision Alignment

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Abstract

When one object makes a request of another, why do we expect that
the second object's behavior correctly satisfies the first object's
wishes? The need to cope with such principal-agent problems
shapes programming practice as much as it shapes human organizations
and economies. However, the literature about such plan coordination
issues among humans is almost disjoint from the literature about
these issues among objects. Even the terms used are unrelated.

These fields have much to learn from each other---both from their
similarities and from the causes of their differences. We propose a
framework for thinking about decision alignment as a bridge
between these disciplines.

BibTeX - Entry

@InProceedings{miller_et_al:LIPIcs:2016:6111,
  author =	{Mark S. Miller and Bill Tulloh},
  title =	{{The Elements of Decision Alignment}},
  booktitle =	{30th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2016)},
  pages =	{17:1--17:5},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-014-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2016},
  volume =	{56},
  editor =	{Shriram Krishnamurthi and Benjamin S. Lerner},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2016/6111},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-61111},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2016.17},
  annote =	{Keywords: economics, law, contracts, principal-agent problem,   incentive alignment, least authority, verification}
}

Keywords: economics, law, contracts, principal-agent problem, incentive alignment, least authority, verification
Collection: 30th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2016)
Issue Date: 2016
Date of publication: 18.07.2016

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