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5.4.4 Federated approach In the federated approach, there is no sufficiently capable common form or meta-model to guide the interaction between enterprises that need to interoperate . The lack of capability is often related to different terminologies or methodologies that need to be resolved by business entity interaction. While there can be a common understanding between the business entities, in the federated approach, no business entity imposes their own models, languages and methods of work. To establish interoperability, parties shall accommodate and adjust their operations. Interoperation can be supported by providing a priori information about the capabilities of the entities to be involved in the exchange or by employing agents to discover the needed information. Support for the a priori case can be provided by establishing entity capability profile s that hold syntactic and semantic information on both entity inputs and outputs. Interoperability can be established by mapping corresponding input and output information of the entities and identifying inconsistencies. Any remaining inconsistencies shall be resolved by manual interventions. This approach is more suitable for peer-to-peer situations, where each enterprise has resources for negotiation and compromise. The approach is particularly adapted to virtual enterprises, where diverse companies combine their resources and knowledge to manufacture a product for a limited duration. NOTE Using the federated approach to develop enterprise interoperability is most challenging. A main research area is development of a mapping factory that can generate on-demand customized “anybody-anywhere-anytime” mapping agents among existing systems. It is worth noting that a specific support for the federated approach is seen in entity profiles, which identify particular entity characteristics and properties relevant for interoperation (e.g. ISO 15745 and ISO 16100).