Integration platform for multi-agent systems in information-rich environments

Engineering, operations research, and management science use scientific and engineering processes to design, plan, and schedule increasingly more complex systems functioning in increasingly more complex environments to enhance their performance. One can argue that the systems have grown in complexity over the years mainly due to increased striving for resource optimization combined with a greater degree of uncertainty in the system's environment. Information is seen as one of the main resources that systems analysts try to use in an optimal way. We show how this resource can be used in integration issues. We introduce the problem of information-based integration, propose a solution, and illustrate the proposed solution with an example