Robust Workflow Systems + Flexible Geoprocessing Services = Geo-enabled Model Web?

The chapter begins briefly exploring the concept of modeling in geosciences which notably benefits from advances on the integration of geoprocessing services and workflow systems. In section 3, we provide a comprehensive background on the technology trends we treat in the chapter. On one hand we deal with workflow systems, categorized normally in the literature as scientific and business workflow systems (Barga and Gannon 2007). In particular, we introduce some prominent examples of scientific workflow systems –Kepler, Taverna, and VisTrails–, and descriptive languages for modeling business workflows, namely BPMN and WS-BPEL. On the other hand, we visit the notion of geoprocessing web services –mainly interfaced by the Web Processing Service and Web Service Description Language specifications. After the current state of the art, we identify recent works that merge geoprocessing service technologies with scientific and business workflow systems to varying environmental modeling scenarios. Based on the earlier analysis, in Section 5 we introduce the notion of Geo-enabled Model Web to shape geo-enabled workflows on the Web, and raise some challenges that need to be addressed to promote robust and flexible tools for realizing the Model Web vision. Finally, some concluding recommendations are formulated.

GRANELL CANUT Carlos; 

2016-07-05

CRC Press/ Taylor & Francis Group

JRC85968

978-1-4665-9693-1,