The Connect architecture

Abstract. Current solutions to interoperability remain limited with re-spect to highly dynamic and heterogeneous environments, where sys-tems encounter one another spontaneously. In this chapter, we introduce the Connect architecture, which puts forward a fundamentally differ-ent 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 heteroge-neous systems. We present a high-level overview of how Connect oper-ates in practice and subsequently provide a simple example to illustrate the architecture in action