A Multi-Agent Framework for the Coordination and Integration of Information Systems
提出一个多智能体框架，通过建模企业信息系统为多个功能不同的智能体，提供表示形式、协调机制和控制方案，用于集成异构信息系统并提升整体效能、效率、响应性和鲁棒性，并以印刷电路板制造信息系统为例验证其重要性。
This paper describes a framework for the coordination and integration of information systems. By modeling typical enterprise information systems as consisting of multiple agents with different functionalities, the methodology provides the representational formalism, coordination mechanisms, and control schemes necessary for integrating heterogeneous units of an information system while meeting such performance criteria as overall effectiveness, efficiency, responsiveness, and robustness. The framework is applied to the development of a manufacturing information system for managing the production processes for making printed circuit boards. Performance results confirm that the system integration framework is important to support complex business processes that involve multiple steps of activities processed by a group of agents across a variety of functionalities.