International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 18-21, 2004 / Town & Country Resort, San Diego, California / The Foundation Initiative 2010 (FI 2010) project, sponsored by the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) Central Test and Evaluation Investment Program (CTEIP), has developed and is continuing to refine a common architecture and requisite software used to integrate testing, training, and simulation systems distributed across many DoD test and training range facilities. The Test and Training Enabling Architecture (TENA), has been successfully implemented on DoD and commercial range instrumentation systems, used as a reusable enabler of distributed, live United States Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM) and Joint National Training Capability (JNTC) exercises.

ITC/USA 2008 Conference Proceedings / The Forty-Fourth Annual International Telemetering Conference and Technical Exhibition / October 27-30, 2008 / Town and Country Resort & Convention Center, San Diego, California / The Joint Mission Environment Test Capability (JMETC) is a distributed live, virtual, and constructive (LVC) testing capability developed to support the acquisition community and to demonstrate Net-Ready Key Performance Parameters (KPP) requirements in a customer-specific Joint Mission Environment (JME). JMETC, using the Test and Training Enabling Architecture, TENA, provides connectivity to the Services' distributed test capabilities and simulations, and industry test resources. TENA is well-designed for supporting JMETC events through its architecture and software capabilities which enable interoperability among range instrumentation systems, facilities, and simulations. TENA, used in major exercises and distributed test events, is also interfacing with other emerging range systems, such as iNET.

International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 20-23, 2003 / Riviera Hotel and Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada / The CCSDS recently developed the CCSDS File Delivery Protocol which can operate in configurations from simple point-to-point space/ground systems to complex arrangements of orbiters, landers, relaying spacecraft, and multiple ground facilities. An international interoperability test program has been developed in support of the development and fielding of the protocol. The first phase was successfully completed in the Fall of 2002. The second phase is to be completed about the time of the presentation of this paper. First phase testing involved five independent implementations of the Core Procedures of the protocol. Since these Procedures are for point-to-point file transfers, only two protocol “entities” were involved in each executed test. The second phase tests other Procedures, which involve multi-hop transferring of files. This phase will involve two separate, independent implementations, with one implementation being hosted on multiple hardware/OS platforms. Each test will involve three or more entities.

ITC/USA 2011 Conference Proceedings / The Forty-Seventh Annual International Telemetering Conference and Technical Exhibition / October 24-27, 2011 / Bally's Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada / Describing data formats has gone a long way in providing a common thread for moving test programs from one test range to another without incurring massive code rewrites. The introduction of the IRIG 106-93 standard provided the Telemetry Attributes Transfer Standard (TMATS) to achieve interoperability between the test article and ground processing system. The integrated Network Enhanced Telemetry (iNET) Metadata Description Language (MDL) extends the concept to include descriptions of the equipment configuration and setup. This MDL declarative language is both vendor neutral and vendor customizable (where needed) and extends interoperability down to the individual components of the instrumentation system. This paper describes the current state of MDL and its use across intended vendor lines.

The ability to interoperate between systems, people, and organizations is considered an important issue within eHealth in order to deliver patient centered care. The achieving and improving of interoperability is a complex undertaking involving the evolution of an information infrastructure, sharing of knowledge and resources, governance of the interoperation between organizations, people and work practices, and handling of economic and legal matters. This thesis contributes with practical knowledge on improving interoperability, based on active participation in and empirical studies of improving interoperability in ePrescribing. A case study describes and analyzes the evolution of ePrescribing in Sweden since the early pioneering years in 1980s, its growth and consolidation before the reregulation of the pharmacy market in 2009. Apractical theory on ePrescribing is presented. A unique field experimental study measuring improvement of interoperability in ePrescribing, before and after a major intervention to improve the quality of ePrescriptions between 2004 and 2009 is presented. Furthermore, a practical theory on interoperation and interoperability is presented. Interoperability is seen as the exercised capability of organizations through their agents to interoperate in a shared work practice in an effective, efficient, and satisfactory manner based on a common ground in a mediated, prescriptive, and non-personal communicative setting using an information infrastructure for mediating interoperation.

Often times groups of domain experts, such as scientists and engineers, will develop their own software modules for specialized computational tasks. When these users determine there is a need to integrate the data and computations used in their specialized components with an enterprise data management system, interoperability between the enterprise system and the specialized components rather than re-implementation allows for faster implementation and more flexible change management by shifting the onus of changes to the scientific components to the subject matter experts rather than the enterprise information technology team. The Jython-based RESTful web service API was developed to leverage code reflection to provide access to Python scripts via RESTful web service calls, providing access to any function available in a Python script accessible to the REST server.

Modeling and simulation permeate all areas of business, science and engineering. With the increase in the scale and complexity of simulations, large amounts of computational resources are required, and collaborative model development is needed, as multiple parties could be involved in the development process. The Grid provides a platform for coordinated resource sharing and application development and execution. In this paper, we survey existing technologies in modeling and simulation, and we focus on interoperability and composability of simulation components for both simulation development and execution. We also present our recent work on an HLA-based simulation framework on the Grid, and discuss the issues to achieve composability. / Singapore-MIT Alliance (SMA)

Systems of Systems are becoming more the norm in technology applied to tactical military systems. Because of this it is necessary to greatly simplify the way telemetry data is formatted and shared with other systems that depend on near real-time information. This is becoming necessary for developmental testing, operational testing and tactical training in realistic battlefield environments. Interoperable data is necessary to fuse Live, Virtual, and Constructive (LVC) participants to create realistic actual and synthetic environments for both testing and training. This need for simplified data communications is important for testing and training to link participants at different ranges, as well as to link distributed instrumentation capabilities within a single range. Live systems are either deployed tactical systems or developmental systems being evaluated for deployment. Virtual systems consist of actual tactical hardware and software operated in a laboratory environment rather than installed on operating tactical platforms (e.g. aircraft, ships or vehicles) in order to provide realistic data feeds without the expense of operating tactical platforms. Constructive participants consist of models or simulations to provide realistic effects (e.g. weather, electromagnetic threats, adjacent tactical elements, etc.) that are not available, affordable, or practical to use real assets. This Paper will describe the on-going efforts, including successes and lessons learned to-date at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.

Στο παρόν κείμενο μελετώνται οι τεχνικές υλοποίησης L2 MPLS VPNs Cicruit Cross Connect (CCC) και Any Trasfer over MPLS (AToM) που παρέχουν οι δύο κύριοι κατασκευαστές δικτυακού υλικού Juniper και Cisco αντίστοιχα. Πρόθεση της μελέτης είναι να διερευνηθούν τα ιδιαίτερα τεχνικά χαρακτηριστικά της κάθε τεχνικής και στην συνέχεια να μελετηθούν τρόποι επίτευξης της διαλειτουργικότητας μεταξύ των δύο. Το τελευταίο είναι χρήσιμο στην περίπτωση που μια υπηρεσία παροχής L2 MPLS VPNs επεκτείνεται σε ένα δίκτυο που αποτελείται από εξοπλισμό και των δύο κατασκευαστών. Στην ιδιαίτερη περίπτωση του ΕΔΕΤ το οποίο είναι ένα αμιγώς «Cisco» δίκτυο το παραπάνω έχει εφαρμογή στο όριο διασύνδεσης με το GEANT το οποίο αντίστοιχα είναι ένα αμιγώς «Juniper» δίκτυο. Συνεπώς η παροχή L2 MPLS VPN μεταξύ οποιουδήποτε φορέα που συνδέεται στο ΕΔΕΤ( πχ ενός ακαδημαϊκού ιδρύματος) και ενός άλλου φορέα που είναι πίσω από το Geant ( φυσικά εκτός ΕΔΕΤ) προϋποθέτει την επίλυση των προβλημάτων διαλειτουργικότητας μεταξύ των δύο τεχνικών. / The subject of this paper is the implementation techniques of L2 MPLS VPNs Cicruit Cross Connect (CCC) and Any Trasfer over MPLS (AtoM) that are provided by the two main manufactures of network connection (Juniper and Cisco). Furthermore this paper searches the special technical features of each technique and tries to find ways of interoperability between those two. This is useful when a providing L2 MPLS VPNs service expands in a network that consists of equipment of these two main manufactures . In the special occasion of EDET, which is a completely «Cisco» network the upper has implementation in the connection limits with GEANT, which is a completely «Juniper» network. Therefore the providing of L2 MPLS VPN between any carrier that is connected with EDET (eg. Academic Institute) and another carrier that is behind GEANT (of course out of EDET) presupposes the solution of the interoperability problems between these techniques.

As Building Information Modeling (BIM) applications become more sophisticated and used within other knowledge domains, the limitations of existing data exchange and sharing methods become apparent. The integration of BIM and Geographic Information System (GIS) can offer substantial benefits to manage the planning process during the design and construction stages. Currently, building (and geospatial) data are shared between BIM software tools through a common data format, such as Industry Foundation Classes (IFC). Because of the diversity and complexity of domain knowledge across BIM and GIS systems, however, these syntactic approaches are not capable of overcoming semantic heterogeneity. This study uses semantic web technology to ensure the highest level of interoperability between existing BIM and GIS tools. The proposed approach is composed of three main steps; ontology construction, semantic integration through interoperable data formats and standards, and query of heterogeneous information sources. Because no application ontology is available to encompass all IFC classes with different attributes, we first develop an IFC-compliant ontology describing the hierarchy structure of BIM objects. Then, we can translate the building's elements and GIS data into semantic web standard formats. Once the information has been gathered from different sources and transformed into an appropriate semantic web format, the SPARQL query language is used in the last step to retrieve this information from a dataset. The completeness of the methodology is validated through a case study and two use case examples.