Approaches to Constructive Interoperability

December 2004 • Technical Report

Grace Lewis, Lutz Wrage

This report outlines several approaches to constructing systems of systems that have interoperability requirements, with respect to syntactic and semantic interoperability.

Publisher:

Software Engineering Institute

CMU/SEI Report Number

CMU/SEI-2004-TR-020

DOI (Digital Object Identifier):

10.1184/R1/6571997.v1

Subjects

System of SystemsSystem of Systems

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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Lewis, Grace; & Wrage, Lutz. Approaches to Constructive Interoperability. CMU/SEI-2004-TR-020. Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. 2004. http://resources.sei.cmu.edu/library/asset-view.cfm?AssetID=7221

IEEE

Lewis. Grace, and Wrage. Lutz, "Approaches to Constructive Interoperability," Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Technical Report CMU/SEI-2004-TR-020, 2004. http://resources.sei.cmu.edu/library/asset-view.cfm?AssetID=7221

APA

Lewis, Grace., & Wrage, Lutz. (2004). Approaches to Constructive Interoperability (CMU/SEI-2004-TR-020). Retrieved March 30, 2023, from the Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University website: http://resources.sei.cmu.edu/library/asset-view.cfm?AssetID=7221

CHI

Grace Lewis, & Lutz Wrage. Approaches to Constructive Interoperability (CMU/SEI-2004-TR-020). Pittsburgh, PA: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2004. http://resources.sei.cmu.edu/library/asset-view.cfm?AssetID=7221

MLA

Lewis, Grace., & Wrage, Lutz. 2004. Approaches to Constructive Interoperability (Technical Report CMU/SEI-2004-TR-020). Pittsburgh: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. http://resources.sei.cmu.edu/library/asset-view.cfm?AssetID=7221

BibTex

@techreport{LewisApproachesto2004,
title={Approaches to Constructive Interoperability},
author={Grace Lewis and Lutz Wrage},
year={2004},
number={CMU/SEI-2004-TR-020},
institution={Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University},
address={Pittsburgh, PA},
url={http://resources.sei.cmu.edu/library/asset-view.cfm?AssetID=7221} }

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