A Service-oriented Architecture for GIS Applications

Atif Naseer, Hossam I. Aldoobi, Basem Y. Alkazemi

2015

Abstract

Many Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are currently built according to the N-Tier architectural style. Despite the advantages of this style in terms of simplicity for the GIS business domain, it lacks many capabilities related to several key characteristics that might affect reusability and extensibility of GIS systems. Service-oriented architecture (SOA), on the other hand, can better serve the continual changing nature of GIS business requirements by facilitating faster and more reliable implementation of business requirements. This paper analyzes the current state of one of the commonly used GIS applications, namely GRASS, to define a potential road map for re-factoring its architecture to match our proposed SOA style in this paper.

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Naseer A., Aldoobi H. and Alkazemi B. (2015). A Service-oriented Architecture for GIS Applications . In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Software Paradigm Trends - Volume 1: ICSOFT-PT, (ICSOFT 2015) ISBN 978-989-758-115-1, pages 151-155. DOI: 10.5220/0005556501510155


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@conference{icsoft-pt15,
author={Atif Naseer and Hossam I. Aldoobi and Basem Y. Alkazemi},
title={A Service-oriented Architecture for GIS Applications},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Software Paradigm Trends - Volume 1: ICSOFT-PT, (ICSOFT 2015)},
year={2015},
pages={151-155},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005556501510155},
isbn={978-989-758-115-1},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Software Paradigm Trends - Volume 1: ICSOFT-PT, (ICSOFT 2015)
TI - A Service-oriented Architecture for GIS Applications
SN - 978-989-758-115-1
AU - Naseer A.
AU - Aldoobi H.
AU - Alkazemi B.
PY - 2015
SP - 151
EP - 155
DO - 10.5220/0005556501510155