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SONAR*: A Multi-Agent Infrastructure for Active Application Architectures and Inter-organisational Information Systems

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Whenever the IT infrastructure is managed by different organisational units the software architecture has to balance the conflicting aims of local autonomy and global coherence. Self aware organisational models help to achieve this goal.

In this paper we describe the architecture of a generic organisational agent, called GOPA. This agent is used as the target platform for Sonar-models. Sonar is a formal framework for the specification of multi-agent organisations. Sonar-models are semantically rich enough to compile a GOPA network from the model in an automatic way.

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  1. Department of Informatics, University of Hamburg, Vogt-Kölln-Str. 30, D-22527, Hamburg

    Michael Köhler-Bußmeier & Matthias Wester-Ebbinghaus

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  1. Distributed Systems and Information Systems, Computer Science Department, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Lars Braubach

  2. University of Liverpool, United Kingdom

    Wiebe van der Hoek

  3. Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI), Freyung 6/6, A-1010, Vienna, Austria

    Paolo Petta

  4. Distributed Systems and Information Systems, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Alexander Pokahr

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Köhler-Bußmeier, M., Wester-Ebbinghaus, M. (2009). SONAR*: A Multi-Agent Infrastructure for Active Application Architectures and Inter-organisational Information Systems. In: Braubach, L., van der Hoek, W., Petta, P., Pokahr, A. (eds) Multiagent System Technologies. MATES 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5774. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04143-3_27

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