Liquid Interfaces: A Dynamic Ontology for the Interoperability of Autonomous Systems

TL;DR

Liquid Interfaces offer a novel, dynamic approach to system interoperability by enabling ephemeral, intention-driven interactions among autonomous agents, supporting adaptive and context-aware coordination.

Contribution

This paper formalizes the Liquid Interface model and introduces the Liquid Interface Protocol (LIP), facilitating semantic negotiation and ephemeral interactions in autonomous systems.

Findings

Formalization of Liquid Interface model

Design of the Liquid Interface Protocol (LIP)

Demonstration of practical feasibility through a reference architecture

Abstract

Contemporary software architectures struggle to support autonomous agents whose reasoning is adaptive, probabilistic, and context-dependent, while system integration remains dominated by static interfaces and deterministic contracts. This paper introduces Liquid Interfaces, a coordination paradigm in which interfaces are not persistent technical artifacts, but ephemeral relational events that emerge through intention articulation and semantic negotiation at runtime.We formalize this model and present the Liquid Interface Protocol (LIP),which governs intention-driven interaction, negotiated execution, and enforce ephemerality under semantic uncertainty. We further discuss the governance implications of this approach and describe a reference architecture that demonstrates practical feasibility. Liquid Interfaces provide a principled foundation for adaptive coordination in agent-based systems