Model driven interoperability in practice: preliminary evidences and issues from an industrial project

Problems of interoperability inside and outside organizations have recently been the subject of considerable amount of studies. Although the Model Driven Interoperability (MDI) and Service Oriented Architecture approaches are widely accepted among scholars to improve interoperability, little was known about the ins and outs of the combination between these approaches in practice. This article is based on an industrial project called ASICOM which aimed at building a platform that enables interoperability among industrial partners. It suggests some preliminary evidences and issues for both theories and practices.