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Sustainability and Interoperability: Two Facets of the Same Gold Medal

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On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2013 Workshops (OTM 2013)

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’To sustain is to endure’ - that is, to be able to survive and continue to function in the face of significant changes. The commonly accepted concept of ’sustainability’ currently encompasses three main pillars: environmental, social/ethical and economic. In a metaphor of survival, they can be seen as water, food and air; one needs all three, only with varying degrees of urgency. In today’s globally networked environment, it is becoming obvious that one cannot achieve environmental, social or economic sustainability of any artefact (be it physical or virtual, e.g. enterprise, project, information system, policy, etc) without achieving ubiquitous ability of the artefact and its creators and users to exchange and understand shared information and if necessary perform processes on behalf of each other - capabilities that are usually defined as ’interoperability’. Thus, sustainability relies on interoperability, while, conversely, interoperability as an ongoing concern relies for its existence on all three main pillars of sustainability. This paper aims to test the hypothesis that interoperability and sustainability are two inseparable and inherently linked aspects of any universe of discourse. To achieve this, it applies the dualistic sustainability / interoperability viewpoint to a variety of areas (manufacturing, healthcare, information and communication technology and standardisation), analyses the results and synthesizes conclusions and guidelines for future work.

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  1. DIMEG, Politecnico di Bari, Italy

    Michele Dassisti

  2. FCT, UNINOVA, Portugal

    Ricardo Jardim-Goncalves

  3. Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico

    Arturo Molina

  4. School of ICT, Griffith University, Australia

    Ovidiu Noran

  5. CRAN UMR 7039, University of Lorraine, France

    Hervé Panetto

  6. CRAN UMR 7039, CNRS, France

    Hervé Panetto

  7. LIPS, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Niš, Serbia

    Milan M. Zdravković

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Dassisti, M., Jardim-Goncalves, R., Molina, A., Noran, O., Panetto, H., Zdravković, M.M. (2013). Sustainability and Interoperability: Two Facets of the Same Gold Medal . In: Demey, Y.T., Panetto, H. (eds) On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2013 Workshops. OTM 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8186. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41033-8_33

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