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Technology of Complex Activity

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In this chapter, using the results of Belov and Novikov (Methodology of complex activity. Lenand, Moscow, 320 pp., 2018, [1]), the technology control problem for the complex activity (CA) of organizational and technical systems (OTSs) is formalized.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    An activity is a purposeful behavior of a human. A complex activity is an activity with a nontrivial internal structure, with multiple and/or changing actors, technologies and roles of the subject matter in its relevant context [1].

    An organizational and technical system is a complex system that consists of humans, technical and natural elements.

  2. 2.

    We will consider an information model as a model of an object represented in the form of information that describes the significant parameters and variables of the object, the relations between them and also the inputs and outputs of the object. An information model can be used to simulate all possible states of an object by supplying information about its input variations.

  3. 3.

    The BPMN format uses the following notations: rounded rectangles as operations or actions; arrows as control flows––the sequences of transitions between actions; circles as different events (thin boundary––initial event; thick boundary––terminal event; double boundary––event of uncertainty occurring during action implementation); diamonds as control points––branching and merging of control flows, including parallel execution and conditions checking.

  4. 4.

    The particular cases of the lower CA elements are managerial activities––resources pools management, network planning and scheduling, interests coordination for different actors, regulation and evaluation (reflexion).

  5. 5.

    The staff and relations of nodes in structure (2) are somewhat conditional.

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    Mikhail V. Belov

  2. V. A. Trapeznikov Institute of Control Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

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Belov, M.V., Novikov, D.A. (2020). Technology of Complex Activity. In: Models of Technologies. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 86. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31084-4_1

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