What is Hybrid Intelligent Information System (HIIS)

This chapter proposes the concept of hybrid intelligent information system (HIIS) as a “glue” concept that helps to unite disparate sections of a course on intelligent information systems. The chapter discusses a generalized structure of HIIS based on modules of consciousness and subconsciousness. The authors show that a HIIS may be implemented using a multiagent approach based on holonic organization. They provide a formalized model of metagraph and a review of methods to describe holonic agents based on the metagraph approach. Thus, a HIIS allows one to combine different approaches which are taught in a course on intelligent information systems.