Interoperable: setting standards for different resources, services and platforms; 5.
Systems-of-systems (SoS 1 are a set of interoperable systems called constituents joined together to accomplish complex missions [1 4].
The availability of a universal set of interoperable components could facilitate the implementation of new specialized applications that combine algorithms in the most appropriate way and allow fast and rigorous model development and testing.
A geospatial knowledge infrastructure consists of a set of interoperable components, including software, information, hardware, procedures and standards, that work together to support advanced discovery and creation of geoscientific resources, including publications, data sets and web services.
As Paul Cotton, the W3C HTML working group co-chair and Partner Group Manager at Microsoft Open Technologies told me earlier this week, he believes that the main achievements of HTML5 are that it "defines the set of interoperable HTML5 features that web developers can depend on in building their web sites".
EPES system will consist of a set of interoperable ICT tools, which will enable the manufacturing and engineering companies enter into a continuous process of upgrading their products along their life cycle within the frame of the Virtual Factory and Product Service System concept, through a configurable and adaptable set of software services.
Generic Model Organism Database (GMOD, http://gmod.org) is a collaborative project to develop a set of interoperable open-source software for visualizing, annotating and managing biological data.
The OBO Foundry provides a set of interoperable ontologies in biological and biomedical domains, which were developed following a common design and philosophy using a common upper level ontology and a common set of relationships.
A survey of existing systems, and of current developments, would be useful in order to identify possible synergies and acknowledge the best efforts achieved by relevant communities, as well as to ensure a coherent set of interoperable biological wikis and to support the majority of biological databases.
