Software interoperability: Principles and practice

This half-day tutorial is intended to provide attendees a solid understanding of software interoperability problems and various proposed solutions to those problems. It is aimed at an intermediate level audience. It uses running examples to illustrate the use of rigorous foundations, specific approaches to interoperability and the assessment of specific approaches. Participants should expect to gain a generally applicable foundation for assessing both problems and approaches, detailed understanding of several specific approaches, and an ability to understand and critically evaluate new and different interoperability problems and approaches in the future.