Paper Info
Title
BPELPower-A BPEL execution engine for geospatial web services
Abstract
The Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) has become a popular choice for orchestrating and executing workflows in the Web environment. As one special kind of scientific workflow, geospatial Web processing workflows are data-intensive, deal with complex structures in data and geographic features, and execute automatically with limited human intervention. To enable the proper execution and coordination of geospatial workflows, a specially enhanced BPEL execution engine is required. BPELPower was designed, developed, and implemented as a generic BPEL execution engine with enhancements for executing geospatial workflows. The enhancements are especially in its capabilities in handling Geography Markup Language (GML) and standard geospatial Web services, such as the Web Processing Service (WPS) and the Web Feature Service (WFS). BPELPower has been used in several demonstrations over the decade. Two scenarios were discussed in detail to demonstrate the capabilities of BPELPower. That study showed a standard-compliant, Web-based approach for properly supporting geospatial processing, with the only enhancement at the implementation level. Pattern-based evaluation and performance improvement of the engine are discussed: BPELPower directly supports 22 workflow control patterns and 17 workflow data patterns. In the future, the engine will be enhanced with high performance parallel processing and broad Web paradigms.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1016/j.cageo.2011.11.029
Computers & Geosciences
Keywords
Field
DocType
geospatial web service,geospatial processing,generic bpel execution engine,standard geospatial web service,web environment,geospatial web processing workflows,web feature service,bpel execution engine,web processing service,bpelpower-a bpel execution engine,broad web paradigm,geospatial workflows,web service,bpel
Geospatial analysis,Data mining,Workflow technology,Web Processing Service,Computer science,Business Process Execution Language,Geography Markup Language,Web service,Workflow engine,Database,Web Coverage Service
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
47,
0098-3004
15
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.17
34
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Genong (Eugene) Yu1181.96
Peisheng Zhao223116.56
Liping Di381198.92
Aijun Chen411911.17
Meixia Deng56110.82
Yuqi Bai610614.75