Exception Handling as a Social Concern

Matteo Baldoni, Cristina Baroglio, Roberto Micalizio, Stefano Tedeschi

Abstract: Exception handling has been successfully proposed in software engineering practice as a simple but effective technology to address abnormal situations possibly occurring at runtime. In this article, we present and explain the advantages of how exception handling can be seamlessly integrated in distributed systems—which are realized as multiagent systems—at an organizational level, by relying on the notion of responsibility.