TY - GEN
T1 - Interoperability in complex distributed systems
AU - Blair, Gordon S.
AU - Paolucci, Massimo
AU - Grace, Paul
AU - Georgantas, Nikolaos
PY - 2011/6/22
Y1 - 2011/6/22
N2 - Distributed systems are becoming more complex in terms of both the level of heterogeneity encountered coupled with a high level of dynamism of such systems. Taken together, this makes it very difficult to achieve the crucial property of interoperability that is enabling two arbitrary systems to work together relying only on their declared service specification. This chapter examines this issue of interoperability in considerable detail, looking initially at the problem space, and in particular the key barriers to interoperability, and then moving on to the solution space, focusing on research in the middleware and semantic interoperability communities. We argue that existing approaches are simply unable to meet the demands of the complex distributed systems of today and that the lack of integration between the work on middleware and semantic interoperability is a clear impediment to progress in this area. We outline a roadmap towards meeting the challenges of interoperability including the need for integration across these two communities, resulting in middleware solutions that are intrinsically based on semantic meaning. We also advocate a dynamic approach to interoperability based on the concept of emergent middleware.
AB - Distributed systems are becoming more complex in terms of both the level of heterogeneity encountered coupled with a high level of dynamism of such systems. Taken together, this makes it very difficult to achieve the crucial property of interoperability that is enabling two arbitrary systems to work together relying only on their declared service specification. This chapter examines this issue of interoperability in considerable detail, looking initially at the problem space, and in particular the key barriers to interoperability, and then moving on to the solution space, focusing on research in the middleware and semantic interoperability communities. We argue that existing approaches are simply unable to meet the demands of the complex distributed systems of today and that the lack of integration between the work on middleware and semantic interoperability is a clear impediment to progress in this area. We outline a roadmap towards meeting the challenges of interoperability including the need for integration across these two communities, resulting in middleware solutions that are intrinsically based on semantic meaning. We also advocate a dynamic approach to interoperability based on the concept of emergent middleware.
KW - adaptive distributed systems
KW - complex distributed systems
KW - heterogeneity
KW - Interoperability
KW - middleware
KW - semantic interoperability
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79959240935&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-21455-4_1
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-21455-4_1
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-21455-4_1
M3 - Conference publication
AN - SCOPUS:79959240935
SN - 9783642214547
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 1
EP - 26
BT - Formal Methods for Eternal Networked Software Systems - 11th International School on Formal Methods for the Design of Computer, Communication and Software Systems, SFM 2011, Advanced Lectures
PB - Springer
T2 - 11th International School on Formal Methods for the Design of Computer, Communication and Software Systems, SFM 2011
Y2 - 13 June 2011 through 18 June 2011
ER -