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Semantically-assisted geospatial workflow design

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Gobe Hobona,

David Fairbairn,

Philip JamesAuthors Info & Claims

GIS '07: Proceedings of the 15th annual ACM international symposium on Advances in geographic information systems

Article No.: 26, Pages 1 - 8

https://doi.org/10.1145/1341012.1341046

Published: 07 November 2007 Publication History

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The value of service oriented architectures has been demonstrated in several studies. A key aspect of the advantage of web services is their orchestration into complex business workflows. The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Systems (OASIS) has recently approved an industry-wide standard for workflow specification, the Business Process Execution Language (BPEL). The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), a member of OASIS, has adopted BPEL for its series of interoperability experiments. This paper presents a study concerned with the use of ontology in assisting geospatial web service orchestration. A methodology for calculating the degree of suitability of various candidate workflows is proposed. The implementation of a prototype plug-in for Eclipse-based BPEL editors is discussed. The proposed system presents candidate workflows based on semantic descriptions of feature, coverage and processing services. An evaluation of the system, based on a workflow involving a variety of geospatial web services is also presented.

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DOI:10.1145/1341012

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