Open AccessSystems interoperability, integration, and composition
Author(s) -
Gamble Rose,
Lewis Grace A.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
software process: improvement and practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1099-1670
pISSN - 1077-4866
DOI - 10.1002/spip.369
Subject(s) - warranty , interoperability , trademark , software , engineering , library science , software engineering , computer science , operations research , world wide web , political science , law , programming language , operating system
The need for organizations to quickly respond to business changes and customer requirements is well documented. This business agility is largely enabled by responsive software systems that very few organizations can afford to build from scratch. Systems are built by the integration and composition of a variety of components, including commercial offthe-shelf (COTS) software, free and open source software (FOSS), existing internal and external systems, and enabling technologies such as serviceoriented architecture (SOA) or grid architecture. The integration of third-party components into systems introduces a lack of control and insight into all system components. Traditional software processes focus more on system development and less on systems integration and composition, which