The Center for Interoperability at the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems FOKUS bundles the expertise of the institute’s competence centers. The laboratory environments at the center make it possible to sound out the semantic, technical, organizational and legal dimensions of interoperability of various industry topics and takes them into account during the standardization processes. We provide consulting on questions about interoperability and standardization, development of test and approach scenarios as well as adaptors, test beds, workshops, training and joint marketing activities among other services.

NEWS

New brochure: Interoperability at Fraunhofer FOKUS
What is our research focus on the topic of interoperability? And what do we actually do in our interoperability labs? Find the answers in our new brochure. Click here to download (German version).

OpenMTC Release 1 is available
Building upon the great success of OpenIMC and OpenEPC, Fraunhofer FOKUS released a new M2M communication platform: OpenMTC.

3rd FOKUS FUSECO Forum
Register today to benefit from the early bird tariff. The preliminary program is now available. If you are interested in speaking, sponsoring or supporting options, please contact: Prof. Dr. Thomas Magedanz.

Interoperable platform for web applications
Watch the new video on interoperability across mobile, PC, home media and in-car devices presented by the webinos project.

April 11, 2012: OASIS Publication
OASIS Technical Advisory Board (TAB) has published a whitepaper on Interoperability Guidelines for specifications.

Fraunhofer FOKUS

Topics
The Center for Interoperability addresses different topics in industry-oriented approach, to optimally support the dialogue between the individual parties. [more]

Interoperability Laboratories
The approach of the interoperability laboratories is practice oriented: technical scenarios from various fields are analyzed and evaluated regarding their interoperability issues. [more]

Service
The Center for Interoperability offers independent consulting and scientific expertise. The application oriented, cross discipline service range includes competence, workshops and showcases. [more]


Events

 Call for Papers

Workshop on Future Government: A Global Perspective in Connection to OGD and Citizen Engagement
May 16-17, 2012 | Geneva, Switzerland

Information Society Conference 2012
May 17, 2012 | Tallinn, Estonia

European Open Data Week
May 21-26, 2012 | Nantes, France

eGovernment Forum @ CeBIT Australia 2012
May 22-24, 2012 | Darling Harbour, Sydney, Australia

INCOM 2012
May 23-25, 2012 | Bukarest, Romania

ESWC12 - 9th Extended Semantic Web Conference
May 27-31, 2012 | Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Open Gov Summit 2012
May 30, 2012 | London, UK

Cross-Border Healthcare in Europe: Towards Clarity, Quality and Synergy between Member States
May 30, 2012 | Brussels, Belgium

Open Overheid Congres
May 31, 2012 | Utrecht, The Netherlands

3rd European Summit on the Future Internet
May 31-1, 2012 | Espoo, Finland

13th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o 2012)
Bridging Research and Practice

June 4-7, 2012 | Maryland, USA

2012 Semantic Technology Conference
June 5-9, 2012 | San Francisco, California, USA

European Open Data Forum 2012
June 6-7, 2012 | Copenhagen, Denmark

9th International Conference on Modeling, Optimization & SIMulation
June 6-8, 2012 | Bordeaux, France

Open Days 2012
June 7-8, 2012 | Rome, Italy

TridentCom 2012
June 11-13, 2012 | Thessaloniki, Greece

The European e-Identity Management Conference 2012
June 12-13, 2012 | Paris, France

12th IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems
June 13-16, 2012 | Stockholm, Sweden

ECEG 2012
June 14-15, 2012 | Barcelona, Spain

SEMIC 2012 - Semantic Interoperability Conference 2012
June 18, 2012 | Brussels, Belgium

Using Open Data: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data journalism
June 19-20, 2012 | Brussels, Belgium

EuroITV 2012
July 4-6, 2012 | Berlin, Germany

Future Network & Mobile Summit 2012
July 4-6, 2012 | Berlin, Germany

International Open Government Data Conference 2012
July 10-12, 2012 | Northwest Washington, D.C., USA

EGOV 2012 - IFIP e-Government Conference 2012
September 3-6, 2012 | Kristiansand, Norway

CfP IWEI 2012 - IFIP Working Conference on Enterprise Interoperability
September 6-7, 2012 | Harbin, China

The 8th International Conference on Open Source Systems
September 10-13, 2012 | Hammamet, Tunesia

7th International Workshop on Enterprise Integration, Interoperability and Networking
September 12-13, 2012 | Rome, Italy

VPH 2012 - Integrative Apporaches to computational Biomedicine
September 18-20, 2012 | London, UK

Smart Cities Industry Summit 2012
September 25-26, 2012 | London, UK

PRO-VE 2012 - 13th IFIP Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises
October 1-3, 2012 | Bournemouth, UK

UNITE 2nd Doctoral Symposium
October 11-12, 2012 | Sofia, Bulgaria

ONIT 2012 - 4th International IEEE Workshop on Open NGN and IMS Testbeds
December 3-7, 2012 | Anaheim, California, USA

HICSS 2013 Minitrack on E-Government Cloud Services and Interoperability
January 7-10, 2013 | Maui, Hawaii, USA

7th International Workshop on Enterprise Integration, Interoperability and Networking
May 18, 2012 | Abstract Submission Deadline

UNITE 2nd Doctoral Symposium
May 20, 2012 | Submission Deadline

HICSS 2013 Minitrack on E-Government Cloud Services and Interoperability
June 15, 2012 | Submission full manuscripts