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

Robust Workflow Systems +

Flexible Geoprocessing Services=

Geo-enabled Model Web?

REAL WORLD (Natural systems)

ABSTRACT WORLD(Modelling systems)

Encoding (modelling)

Decoding (simulation)

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quantityRaw data

Processed data

Overproduction of (raw) data versus underconsumption of (processed) data

time

quantityRaw data

Processed data

Overproduction of (raw) data versus underconsumption of (processed) data

WMS WFS WCS SOS CSW WPS0

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Availability of OGC services (Mar 2011)

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time

quantityRaw data

Processed data

Overproduction of (raw) data versus underconsumption of (processed) data

Data analysis gap

Robust Workflow Systems +

Flexible Geoprocessing Services=

Geo-enabled Workflow

Geoprocessing services

& BPEL

WSDL-based or WPS-based services

WPS-based services wrapped as WSDL-based services

Geoprocessing services

& Scientific Workflows

Kepler-based solution

VisTrails-based solution

Taverna-based solution

But(Hence the ? in the title)

geo-enabled workflows == geo-enabled model web ?

#1 Variability of models

#1 Variability of models

#2 Increasing complexity of chained models

#1 Variability of models

#2 Increasing complexity of chained models

#3 Existence of multiple interfaces to expose models

#1 Variability of models

#2 Increasing complexity of chained models

#3 Existence of multiple interfaces to expose models

#4 Wide range of infrastructures and implementations

#1 Variability of models

#2 Increasing complexity of chained models

#3 Existence of multiple interfaces to expose models

#4 Wide range of infrastructures and implementations

#5 Reproducible resources

C. Granell. Robust Workflow Systems + Flexible Geoprocessing Services = Geo-enabled Model Web? In: Geographical Information Systems: Trends and Technologies. Boca Raton: CRC Press (Taylor & Francis Group), 2014, pp. 172-204

C. Granell, S. Schade, N. Ostländer. Seeing the forest through the trees: A review of integrated environmental modelling tools. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 41: 136-150, 2013

Carlos Granell carlos.granell@uji.es

http://www.geotec.uji.es/