Interoperability (glossary)

(1) the ability of two or more systems or components to exchange information and to use the information that has been exchanged (ISO/IEC 24765)

(2) the ability for two or more ORBs to cooperate to deliver requests to the proper object (ISO/IEC 19500)

(3) The capability to communicate, execute programs, and transfer data among various functional units in a manner that requires the user to have little or no knowledge of the unique characteristics of those units. (ISO/IEC 2382)

Source

(1) ISO/IEC. Systems and Software Engineering Vocabulary (SEVocab) - ISO/IEC 24765. in International Organization for Standardization (ISO)/International Electronical Commission (IEC) [database online]. Geneva, Switzerland, 2009 [cited December 21 2009]. Available from http://pascal.computer.org/sev_display/index.action.

(2) ISO/IEC 19500-2:2003 Information technology -- Open Distributed Processing -- Part 2: General Inter-ORB Protocol (GIOP)/Internet Inter-ORB Protocol (IIOP), 3.2.19

(3) SO/IEC 2382-1:1993 Information technology--Vocabulary--Part 1: Fundamental terms, 01.01.47