In order to be platform-independent and interoperable without maintenance and installation efforts, a pathway browser should be available as a web-based application that requires no registration fees and that is freely available for academic users.
Application-level scheduling is a common process in the enterprise domain, but in order to be productive it should be time-effective, interoperable and reliable.
In order to be able to cross-analyze VGI with sensor data, created and managed within distinct VGI platforms and information systems, Horita and colleagues outline the need to adopt interoperable services.
Suppliers can in turn design technologies to be interoperable, engage in pre-competitive collaboration, and try more open business models where feasible.
In order to facilitate system integration, data from various systems needs to be interoperable.
Since they are involved in cross-border business and meant to be "interoperable"—ie, allowing access to a wide number of counterparties the responsibility for the bail-out of a CCP may not be a clear-cut geographical one.
There are proposals in France to require digital music systems to be "interoperable", so that, for instance, the closed arrangement between iPods and iTunes would have to be opened up.
In mass-transit RFID cards, the chips and readers are designed and sold as a package, and even in the case of retailing they are carefully designed to be interoperable.
More specifically, a robotic system needs to be interoperable with sensors and devices in its current service environments automatically, rather than statically pre-programmed for its environment.
"If we would be able to come to an agreement with China that our systems were to be interoperable, we would still be interested in having cooperation," he said.
