Getting programs to work together often necessitates extensive work on the part of the users of those programs or their programmers { to learn the characteristics of completed programs and to negotiate communication formats and protocols for programs under development. What's more, the resulting systems are usally very rigid { components often cannot be modi ed or replaced without subsequent ro...

Communication and interoperation are critical to modern industry. A reconfigurable intelligent gateway based on ARM and FPGA is proposed on the basis of current situation and developing trend of protocol converting to achieve communication and interoperation among heterogeneous field bus systems and TCP/IP network. The functional block diagram, hardware architecture, software structure and prot...

A variety of solutions have been suggested for managing heterogeneity among data sources. We are developing a runtime environment and tools that support integration of online information processing services in digital libraries. We introduce canonical wrappers that provide logical abstractions for the native interfaces of components. They enable mediators to reason about interfaces of heterogen...

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Object Oriented Interoperability is an extension and generalization of the Procedure Oriented Interoperability approaches taken in the past. It provides an interoperability support frame by considering the object as the basic interoperation unit. This way interoperation is based on higher level abstractions and it is independent of the specific interface through which a service is used. A proto...

To realize the full potential of biological databases (DBs) requires more than the interactive, hypertext flavor of database interoperation that is now so popular in the bioinformatics community. Interoperation based on declarative queries to multiple network-accessible databases will support analyses and investigations that are orders of magnitude faster and more powerful than what can be acco...