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In developmental psychology and moral, political, and bioethical philosophy, autonomy [note 1] is the capacity to make an informed, uncoerced decision.
Run-time autonomy refers to the extent of the control that a service has over the way its solution logic [3] is processed by the run-time environment. The more control a service has over its run-time environment, the more predictable is its behavior. Run-time autonomy is achieved by providing dedicated processing resources to the service.
We can distinguish semi-autonomous and autonomous teams. The difference is the degree of autonomy of the group. Nowadays, more and more companies are employing (semi-) autonomous work groups, such as companies in the automobile industry, mass distribution sector, and start-ups. To succeed and perform its tasks, a (semi-) autonomous team needs: [2]
LOBs have full autonomy to develop standards for applications and infrastructure and to define enterprise architectures. The goal of the LOB is to optimize performance at LOB level. Federated Architectures define common or shared architecture standards across autonomous program areas, enabling, e.g., state government entities to maintain ...
Autonomy – The degree to which the job provides the employee with significant freedom, independence, and discretion to plan out the work and determine the procedures in the job. For jobs with a high level of autonomy, the outcomes of the work depend on the workers' own efforts, initiatives , and decisions; rather than on the instructions from ...
In business it describes heterogeneous networks of people interacting to produce intelligent outcomes. It can also denote non-autonomous multi-agent problem-solving systems . The term was used in 1999 to describe the behavior of an intelligent business "ecosystem" [ 2 ] where Collaborative Intelligence, or CQ, is "the ability to build ...
Chamberlain worked at Autonomy, a maker of software that promised to give businesses insights by analyzing raw data, for just under seven years. Those years arguably defined the rest of his life.
Reducing autonomy reduces the size and expense of cisterns. Many autonomous homes can reduce water use below 10 US gallons (38 L) per person per day, so that in a drought a month of water can be delivered inexpensively via truck. Self-delivery is often possible by installing fabric water tanks that fit the bed of a pick-up truck.