Conducting inter-disciplinary research for enhancing internetware properties

As new kinds of internet-based computing continually emerge, new requirements give rise to the new paradigm, Internetware, which carries properties of being autonomous, cooperative, situational, evolvable, emergent and trustworthy. How to facilitate and support these properties needs further discussions. It is suspected that this will need knowledge from different disciplines and we set out to study this and report our result here. Firstly, all possible disciplines that may be able to support the afore mentioned properties of Internetware will be examined. Then, they will be narrowed down to a number of disciplines in which knowledge can be cross-fertilised to support the development of the Internetware. Finally, how to integrated knowledge from different disciplines together inter-disciplinarily will be studied.