Approaches to Constructive Interoperability

Abstract

Interoperability between systems requires the capability for users to exchange information (syntactic interoperability) and a common understanding of its meaning or how to act upon it (semantic interoperability). This report will discuss several current approaches to constructing systems of systems that have interoperability requirements, with respect to syntactic and semantic interoperability. The areas examined include Model-Driven Architecture, Service-Oriented Architecture, Web services, Open Grid Services Architecture, and Component Frameworks. These initial discussions assume that the interoperating systems agree on a common approach. Reaching an agreement can be challenging, especially when legacy systems are involved. Technical techniques and recommendations for reaching an agreement between systems that use differing technologies are also briefly explored.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA431067

Entities

People

  • Grace Lewis
  • Lutz Wrage

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Application Software
  • Birds
  • Computer Program Documentation
  • Computer Program Reliability
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computing System Architectures
  • Electronic Mail
  • Engineering
  • Operating Systems
  • Programming Languages
  • Service Oriented Architecture
  • Software Development
  • Web Service
  • Word Processors
  • Xml

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computational Linguistics
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.