@inproceedings{189c1574e5fa492ebb9d63c7bb6fccb6,
title = "Configuration management by consensus: An application of law-governed systems",
abstract = "It is self-evident that if one wants to model and control the cooperative process of software development, one must provide for coolperative decision making. In particular, one should be able to base the decision on whether and how to carry out a given operation on the consensus of several, possibly independent, agents. It is important to emphasize that this is not just a matter of computing the conjunction of some set of conditions. One must also provide a mechanism for establishing any desired consensus structure, which would specify who is allowed to state which kinds of concerns regarding this operation, and what the relationship among these concerns should be. In this paper we propose a general framework for such decision making by consensus, which is based on the concept of law-governed software development. As a concrete application domain in which to illustrate this framework, we consider here the issue of configuration binding.",
author = "Minsky, {Naftaly H.} and David Rozenshtein",
note = "Funding Information: {\textquoteleft}Research supported in part by NSF grant CCR-8807803. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 1990 ACM.; 4th ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Software Development Environments, SDE 1990 ; Conference date: 03-12-1990 Through 05-12-1990",
year = "1990",
month = oct,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1145/99277.99283",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Software Development Environments, SDE 1990",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery, Inc",
pages = "44--55",
editor = "Taylor, {Richard N.}",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Software Development Environments, SDE 1990",
}