Increasing attention is being paid to the development of socalled behavioural types as a means to formally address the problem of ensuring the correct interoperation of software components as well as of Web services. The objective of this paper is to provide an insightful synthesis of the state-of-the-art in this area, both to summarise the main results achieved and to point out some important ...

Commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) simulation packages are widely used in many areas of industry. Several research groups are attempting to integrate distributed simulation principles and techniques with these packages to potentially give us COTS distributed simulation. The High Level Architecture – COTS Simulation Package Interoperation Forum (HLA-CSPIF) is a group of researchers and practitioner...

This paper describes an agent-based architecture designed to support the interoperation of distributed and disparate information processing tools and resources. This work is based on the premise that many computer users have a tool kit of familiar software tools and information resources that must be used in conjunction to perform the user’s information processing tasks. The architecture extend...

Interoperation of heterogeneous and autonomous information systems has traditionally been hampered by semantic di erences in their data models. With the World Wide Web, the development of cooperative information systems requires new solution to allow interoperation. In this paper, we address the problem by de ning a methodology to help in the building of cooperative information systems. This me...

Live interoperation of several speechand text-processing engines is key to tasks such as real-time cross-language story segmentation, topic clustering, and captioning of video. One requirement for interoperation is a common data format shared across engines, so that the output of one can be understood as the input of another. The GALE Type System has been created to serve this purpose for inter...

With the growing advances in computing and communications technologies, the concept of system-of-systems (SoS) becomes widely recognized as it offers potential benefits and new challenges. Relevant perspectives related to SoS constitutes nowadays an active domain of research, among them those issues concerning the need of full interoperation. When it is related to enterprise information systems...

This document provides guidelines for mapping service classes, and traffic management features and parameters between Internet and ATM technologies. The service mappings are useful for providing effective interoperation and end-to-end Quality of Service for IP Integrated Services networks containing ATM subnetworks. The discussion and specifications given here support the IP integrated services...

Existing architectures for multiagent systems emphasize low-level messaging-related considerations. As a result, the programming abstractions they provide are also low level. In recent years, commitments have been applied to support flexible interactions among autonomous agents. We present a layered multiagent system architecture based on commitments. In this architecture, agents are the compon...

Inter-domain routing is an important component to allow interoperation among heterogeneous network domains operated by different organizations. Although interdomain routing has been extensively studied in the Internet, it remains relatively unexplored in the Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) space. In MANETs, the inter-domain routing problem is challenged by: (1) dynamic network topology, and (2)...