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Achieving seamless interoperability among heterogeneous communication systems and technologies is critical in todays’ networked business world, ranging from joint collaborative military operations that need to exchange critical information in real-time, to complex e-business scenarios of organizations from different industry sectors using heterogeneous technologies and communication infrastructures to execute complex inter-organizational business processes. The aim of this article is to present a review of current domain-specific standardization initiatives towards seamless communication, discussing challenges and highlighting directions for further research and development work. This article has two main contributions. First, it provides an up-to-date review of the most relevant domain-specific standardization initiatives aiming at achieving seamless interoperability among communication systems. Second, by comparing these initiatives, a set of recommendations is advanced towards improving further interoperability developments, offering a unique niche for researchers, practitioners and developers to make significant contributions.
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Chituc, CM. (2017). Interoperability Standards for Seamless Communication: An Analysis of Domain-Specific Initiatives. In: Ciuciu, I., et al. On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2016 Workshops. OTM 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10034. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55961-2_4
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