Software collaboration platform for advanced workflows and digital twins

A framework for creating a shared agent environment between at least two heterogenous software agents, comprising:

• a collaboration platform that includes a data synchronization service that provides a mechanism wherein the software agents publish and subscribe to messages, and wherein software agents advertise a shared model that is used to exchange information and behaviors in collaboration between the software agents in the shared agent environment,
• wherein the collaboration platform receives a connection from a first software agent and at least one second software agent,
• wherein the first software agent publishes a representation of the data and behaviors into the shared model for consumption and thereafter advertises the shared model using the data synchronization service;
• wherein the at least one second software agent subscribes to the shared model;
• wherein the first software agent and/or the at least one second software agent use a communication link between each of the first software agent and the at least one second software agent and use the data synchronization service to observe, consume and/or contribute to the shared model, and
• wherein a view is presented that is associated with the first software agent and/or the at least one second software agent and the shared model.

A method for a shared agent environment between at least two heterogenous software agents, comprising:

• receiving a connection at a collaboration platform from a first software agent and at least one second software agent;
• establishing, by a first software agent, a shared model to share a common representation of data and behaviors with at least one second software agent;
• publishing and advertising, by the first software agent using a data synchronization service, a representation of the data and behaviors into the shared model for consumption;
• subscribing, by the at least one second software agent, to the shared model;
• establishing a communication connection between each of the first software agent and the at least one second software agent;
• observing, consuming and/or contributing to the shared model using the data synchronization service by the first software agent and/or the at least one second software agent;
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• presenting in response to the observing, consuming and/or contributing, updated data in a view associated with the first software agent and/or the at least one second software agent.