Short-Lived Ontology Approach for Agent/HLA Federated Enterprise Interoperability

Abstract

This paper aims at proposing an implementation of the federation oriented enterprise interoperability concept, using the rising notion of short-lived ontology. We give first, a review of ongoing researches on enterprise interoperability. Then, we recall on artificial agent concept and HLA standard that appear to be adequate to support execution of the studied concept. Indeed, on the one hand agent dialogue fits the concept of information exchange in a federated enterprise interoperability approach, on the other hand the HLA standard, initially designed for military M&S purpose, can be transposed for enterprise interoperability at the implementation level, reusing the years of experiences in distributed systems. From these postulates, we propose the first agent/HLA framework short-lived ontology based to implement distributed enterprise models from the conceptual level of federated enterprise interoperability approach.