Interoperable agent systems depend upon the agents' ability to reconcile their views of the world, and to share knowledge.
The goal of generic programming is to express algorithms and data structures in a broadly adaptable, interoperable form that allows their direct use in software construction.
However, this is an extremely complex technical requirement and it is vital that any deployed system be interoperable with our allies.
In order to create the internal market, we must first ensure that trains are interoperable, which requires considerable funding before anything else.
More modest advances include standard containers and pallets which are interoperable with all mechanical handling equipment.
We must accelerate the drive to ensure open and interoperable standards and promote those standards worldwide.
One definite necessity is the adaptation of the railway systems so that they can actually use one another's track and can actually be interoperable.
This is, of course, the only interoperable system which people can use when they are in another country.
