Systematic literature review on intent‐driven systems

An intent‐driven system is a compositional system of human actors and machine actors. The aim of intent‐driven systems is to capture stakeholders’ intents and transform these into a form that enables computer processing of the intents. Only then are different machine actors able to negotiate with each other on behalf of their respective stakeholders and their intents, and suggest a mutually beneficial collaboration. The aim is to find existing methods/techniques which could be used as building blocks to construct intent‐driven systems. This is used to provide insight into what is needed to enable intent‐driven systems with the help of these methods/techniques. As a part of a design science study, a Systematic Literature Review is conducted. The existences of methods/techniques which can be used as building blocks to construct intent‐driven systems exist in the literature. How these methods/techniques can interact in order to enable realisations of intent‐driven systems is not evident in the existing literature. The synthesis shows a need for further research regarding the semantic interchange of information, actor interaction in intent‐driven systems, and the governance of intent‐driven systems.