Integrating Multi-Agent Systems: A Case Study

Intelligent Agent technology provides an appropriate framework to integrate knowledge with efficient production actions in distributed organizations. Integration of knowledge depends on balanced information representation within and across heterogeneous organizations. Integrating information within a specific environment can be helped by the deployment of standards and common practices. However, it is harder to attempt such a smooth integration with the information of foreign organizations. It is the challenge of this paper to present an architecture that provides a first step towards successful integration of separate multi-agent systems in a real life control domain.