Towards the ultimate goal of seamless interaction among networked programs and devices, industry has developed orchestration and process modeling languages such as XLANG, WSFL, and recently BPEL4WS. Unfortunately, these efforts leave us a long way from seamless interoperation. Researchers in the Semantic Web community have taken up this challenge proposing top-down approaches to achieve aspects...

Currently there is no practical standard for grid middleware, most of the grid platforms are built by their own, and it’s not easy to interoperate these grid platforms. Information service is one of the key components of the service oriented grid system, and information service interoperation among heterogeneous grids is the first step towards grid interoperation. Existing grid interoperability...

The Levels of Conceptual Interoperability Model (LCIM) was developed to cope with the different layers of interoperation of modeling & simulation applications. It introduced technical, syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, dynamic, and conceptual layers of interoperation and showed how they are related to the ideas of integratability, interoperability, and composability. The model was successfully ap...

In this paper we address the problem of interoperation at a semantic level. We assume that emerging standards will solve most of the syntactic infrastructure problems that exist today. However, interoperation has to deal with sources from diiering domains, and their semantic diierences. We present mediation as the principal means to resolve problems of semantic interoperation. Since the number ...

Interoperability has been broadly conceptualized as the ability of agents to work together. In open systems, the interoperability of agents is an important concern. A common way of achieving interoperability is by requiring agents to follow prescribed protocols in their interactions with others. In existing systems, agents must follow any protocol to the letter; in other words, they should exch...