There has recently been a major advance with respect to how information fusion is performed. Information fusion has gone from being conceived as a purely hierarchical procedure, as is the case of traditional military applications, to now being regarded collaboratively, as holonic fusion, which is better suited for civil applications and edge organizations. The above paradigm shift is being boosted as information fusion gains ground in different non-military areas, and human-computer and machine-machine communications, where holarchies, which are more flexible structures than ordinary, static hierarchies, become more widespread. This paper focuses on showing how holonic structures tend to be generated when there are constraints on resources (energy, available messages, time, etc.) for interactions based on a set of fully intercommunicating elements (peers) whose components fuse information as a means of optimizing the impact of vagueness and uncertainty present message exchanges. Holon formation is studied generically based on a multiagent system model, and an example of its possible operation is shown. Holonic structures have a series of advantages, such as adaptability, to sudden changes in the environment or its composition, are somewhat autonomous and are capable of cooperating in order to achieve a common goal. This can be useful when the shortage of resources prevents communications or when the system components start to fail.

翻译：近年来，信息融合的执行方式取得了重大进展。信息融合已从传统军事应用中纯粹的层级化程序，发展为如今被视为协作式的整体融合，更适用于民用应用和边缘组织。随着信息融合在不同非军事领域、人机交互及机器间通信中的普及，整体结构——这种比普通静态层级更灵活的架构——正日益广泛，从而推动了上述范式转变。本文重点展示在资源（能量、可用消息、时间等）受限条件下，基于一组完全互联的元素（对等体）进行交互时，整体结构如何倾向于自然生成；这些组件通过融合信息来优化消息交换中存在的模糊性与不确定性的影响。基于多智能体系统模型对整体形成进行了通用性研究，并展示了其可能运行的示例。整体结构具有一系列优势：能适应环境或其组成的突然变化，具备一定自主性，并能为实现共同目标而协作。这在资源短缺阻碍通信或系统组件开始失效时尤为有用。