Chris Eykamp, Luís de Sousa, Christian Braun,Ulrich Leopold, Olivier Baume, Rui Martins

How I Learned to StopWorrying and Love WPS

MUSIC: European project to help cities reduce their CO2 emissions related to energy

Partnership of 5 European cities and 2 research centers (funded by INTERREG IV B NWE)

iGUESS is a modeling platform and decision support system

What is iGUESS?

Searching for a way to run models

Interoperability between partners Simplify access to complex data/tools Create reusable framework Distributable codebase

Conclusion: Design iGUESS around OWS

iGUESS Design GoalsSolution: Open Web Services

(OWS)

WPSWPS

WPSWPS

WPSWPS

WMS WFS WCS

WMS WFS WCS

WMS WFS WCS

WPSiGUESS

Model Servers Data Servers

Solar Potential

Wind Potential

Emissions

Partner City

EU Agency

Research Org.

WMS WFS WCS

Results Servers

Schematic View

What couldbe better?

[1] Get all metadata in a single request

XML JSON

[2] Communicate in XML and JSON

[3] MUST DESTROY running processes

[4] Let WPS make callbacks

[5] Better specification of inputs and outputs

?? What about security ??

Chris Eykamp, Luís de Sousa, Christian Braun,Ulrich Leopold, Olivier Baume, Rui Martins

How I Learned to StopWorrying and Love WPS