Architecture modeling for interoperability analysis on the future internet

One of the key aspects of the Future Internet is the Internet of Services, where companies are envisioned to sell and purchase services online in a dynamic fashion. A typical future scenario would be that companies form so-called ad-hoc business networks on the Future Internet to be able to collaborate together with a common goal of gaining value as a group. However, in order for these ad-hoc business networks to communicate and exchange services with each other they must be interoperable. This paper proposes architecture modeling and interoperability analysis as support functions in the ad-hoc business networks service life cycle.