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Current solutions to interoperability remain limited with respect to highly dynamic and heterogeneous environments, where systems encounter one another spontaneously. In this chapter, we introduce the Connect architecture, which puts forward a fundamentally different method to tackle the interoperability problem. The philosophy is to observe networked systems in action, learn their behaviour and then dynamically generate mediator software which will connect two heterogeneous systems. We present a high-level overview of how Connect operates in practice and subsequently provide a simple example to illustrate the architecture in action.
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Grace, P. et al. (2011). The CONNECT Architecture. In: Bernardo, M., Issarny, V. (eds) Formal Methods for Eternal Networked Software Systems. SFM 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6659. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21455-4_2
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