Test of several approaches for the composition of web services in meteorology.

Benoît Gschwind (1) , Lucien Wald (2) , Robert Mahl (3) , François Irigoin (3) , Lionel Ménard (1)

1 CEP - Centre Énergétique et Procédés
2 CEP/Sophia
3 CRI - Centre de Recherche en Informatique

Composition of web services is a powerful means to answer user needs in many domains. This communication focuses on applications in meteorology. This domain presents several particularities which are discussed. We present an overview of three main types of approaches in composition of web services: static plan, IA-plan and theorem proof. We confront these types of approaches to the specific case of meteorology which is not well studied by the research community in web services. We design a test bed that is capable of handling the key issues in meteorology. We have selected three approaches. We adapt them to our case and build three prototypes which are used in the test bed to point out weakness and strength of each approach. We find that current approaches do not fulfill needs in meteorology. We recommend an hybrid approach that combines the three in order to obtain an automatic and adaptative composition.

Mots clés: internet; service web; composition; météorologie

Domaines: Autre

Benoît Gschwind, Lucien Wald, Robert Mahl, François Irigoin, Lionel Ménard. Test of several approaches for the composition of web services in meteorology.. EnviroInfo 2007, Environmental Informatics and systems research, the 21st International Conference on "Informatics for Environmental Protection", 2007, France. pp.127-134. ⟨hal-00222759⟩