Privacy by Socio-Technical Design: A Collaborative Approach for Privacy Friendly System Design

This paper presents a framework for matching information system design to the needs and constraints of the organization. The framework provides a device for linking and balancing a variety of methodologies that are aimed at different stages of system development such as design, organizational goals and strategies, specifics for technical design, and organization of specific work units. The framework integrates the information system design developed from the methodologies, the actual contingencies of the existing organizations, and the demands of the work. The framework has been titled *S*M*A*S*H*, Strategy Matrix, Automated System Hierarchy.

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How Can Knowledge Leakage be Stopped

International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development ◽

10.4018/ijskd.2017010102 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 26-41

Author(s):

Mambo Governor Mupepi ◽

Aslam Modak ◽

Jaideep Motwani ◽

Sylvia C. Mupepi

Keyword(s):

System Design ◽

Value Creation ◽

Technical System ◽

Collaborative Approach ◽

The People ◽

Knowledge Leakage ◽

Philosophical Framework ◽

Technical Systems ◽

Knowledge Intensive

This article discusses how leakage of knowledge can occur in value creation networks embedded in knowledge-intensive firms, and how a collaborative approach can be utilized to minimize risk and increase sustainability. For knowledge to be preserved from unintentional outflow, its confidential nature and description must be understood at all levels. Loss of knowledge can occur at any point; whether it is through the process of consultation or when employees do their work. Forfeiture of information can be unintended or a planned effort. To prevent such unintended leakage, it is important to develop a shared mindset among employees to minimize the risk. The socio-technical system design is a philosophical framework that enables companies to simultaneously consider both ethical and technical systems in order to best match the technology and the people involved. History has shown through a number of situations that firms that failed to comprehend new opportunities were often limited by stakeholders' thoughts and actions.

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Architectures for Dynamically Coupled Systems

Model-Based Engineering of Collaborative Embedded Systems ◽

10.1007/978-3-030-62136-0_5 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 95-124

Author(s):

Malin Gandor ◽

Nicolas Jäckel ◽

Lorenz Käser ◽

Alexander Schlie ◽

Ingo Stierand ◽

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Keyword(s):

Embedded Systems ◽

System Design ◽

Classical System ◽

Coupled Systems ◽

Collaborative Systems ◽

Dynamic Nature ◽

Technical Design ◽

Verification Methods ◽

Abstraction Levels ◽

Development Methods

AbstractDynamically coupled collaborative embedded systems operate in groups that form, change, and dissolve—often frequently—during their lifetime. Furthermore, the context in which collaborative systems operate is a dynamic one: systems in the context may appear, change their visible behavior, and disappear again. Ensuring safe operation of such collaborative systems is of key importance, while their dynamic nature poses challenges that do not occur in “classical” system design. This starts with the elicitation of the operational context against which the system will be designed—requiring capture of its dynamic nature—and affects all other design phases as well. Novel development methods are required, enabling engineers to deal with the challenges raised by dynamicity in a manageable way. This chapter presents methods that have been developed to support engineers in this task. The methods cover different viewpoints and abstraction levels of the development process, starting at the requirements viewpoint, and glance at the functional and technical design, as well as verification methods for the type of systems envisioned.

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