Numerous projects in the area of Real-World Internet (RWI), Internet of Things (IoT), and Internet Connected Objects have proposed architectures for the systems they develop. All of these systems are faced with very similar problems in their architecture and design and interoperability among these systems is limited. To address these issues and to speed up development and deployment while at the same time reduce development and maintenance costs, reference architectures are an appropriate tool. As reference architectures require agreement among all stakeholders, they are usually developed in an incremental process. This paper presents the current status of our work on a reference architecture for the RWI as an architectural blueprint.

Authors and Affiliations

1. University of Surrey, UK

   Alex Gluhak

2. National University of Galway, Ireland

   Manfred Hauswirth & Vinny Reynolds

3. Ericsson, Serbia

   Srdjan Krco

4. FZI, Germany

   Nenad Stojanovic

5. NEC, Germany

   Martin Bauer & Stephan Haller

6. Aalborg University, Denmark

   Rasmus Nielsen & Neeli Prasad

7. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

   Oscar Corcho

Editors and Affiliations

1. Knowledge Media Institute (KMi), The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK

   John Domingue

2. Dept. of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London, London, UK

   Alex Galis

3. Eurescom GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany

   Anastasius Gavras

4. Synelixis/TEI of Chalkida, Greece

   Theodore Zahariadis

5. Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK

   Dave Lambert

6. Waterford Institute of Technology –TSSG, Waterford, Ireland

   Frances Cleary

7. CERTH-ITI, Thessaloniki, Greece

   Petros Daras

8. Ericsson Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia

   Srdjan Krco

9. Business Information Systems, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Sierre, Switzerland

   Henning Müller

10. IC Focus, London, UK

    Man-Sze Li

11. ESoCE Net, Dialogic, Aalto University School of Economics (CKIR), Aalto, Finland

    Hans Schaffers

12. SAP Research, Sophia Antipolis, France

    Volkmar Lotz

13. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

    Federico Alvarez

14. University of Zurich, Switzerland

    Burkhard Stiller

15. SAP Research, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Stamatis Karnouskos

16. Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC), Paris, France

    Susanna Avessta

17. Lulea University of Technology, Lulea, Sweden

    Michael Nilsson

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