A Strategy to Specify Customizable Interoperability Maturity Models for Software Systems

Interoperability enables transparent communication between systems and can be achieved through syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, and organizational levels. Maturity models have been used to check systems' maturity. However, these models have been criticized for needing more empirical validation and effective methods to help their specifications, thus harming their adoption. This work presents Amortisse, a maturity model to check interoperability in software systems, and the methodology for its customization and evolution. The results show Amortisse's feasibility in measuring the interoperability maturity of systems, and the methodology allows the development of the first version and its evolution.