Mandala an agent-based platform to support interoperability in systems-of-systems

A particular challenge to the construction of systems-of-systems (SoS) is the high heterogeneity of their constituent systems, thereby making interoperability an important issue to be tackled. This paper introduces Mandala, a platform to support interoperability in SoS. Mandala aims to offer a softw...

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Published in:2018 IEEE ACM 6th International Workshop on Software Engineering for Systems of Systems (SESoS) pp. 21 - 28
Main Authors: Mendes, Altair, Loss, Stefano, Cavalcante, Everton, Lopes, Frederico, Batista, Thais
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: New York, NY, USA ACM 29.05.2018
Series:ACM Conferences
Subjects:
Business
Business processes
Computer systems organization > Architectures > Distributed architectures
Computing methodologies > Artificial intelligence > Planning and scheduling > Multi-agent planning
Containers
Information systems
Information systems > Information systems applications
Interoperability
Middleware
Smart cities
Software agents
Software and its engineering > Software creation and management > Designing software
Systems-of-systems
business processes
interoperability
information systems
systems-of-systems
software agents
middleware
ISBN:1450357474, 9781450357470
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Summary:A particular challenge to the construction of systems-of-systems (SoS) is the high heterogeneity of their constituent systems, thereby making interoperability an important issue to be tackled. This paper introduces Mandala, a platform to support interoperability in SoS. Mandala aims to offer a software layer to integrate heterogeneous, independent information systems without significantly changing their implementation or even knowing details about each system. The proposal relies on (i) business process models to represent activities associated to SoS global missions and (ii) software agents to support asynchronous communication among autonomous components. This paper presents an evaluation of Mandala and its interoperability mechanisms through a case study using information systems within a smart city scenario.
ISBN:1450357474
9781450357470
DOI:10.1145/3194754.3194757