Automated Discovery, Binding, and Integration Of GIS Web Services

The last decade has demonstrated steady growth and utilization of Web Service technology. While Web Services have become significant in a number of IT domains such as eCommerce, digital libraries, data feeds, and geographical information systems, common portals or registries of Web Services require manual publishing for indexing. Manually compiled registries of Web Services have proven useful but often fail to include a considerable amount of Web Services published and available on the Web. We propose a system capable of finding, binding, and integrating Web Services into an index in an automated manner. By using a combination of guided search and web crawling techniques, the system finds a large number of Web Service providers that are further bound and aggregated into a single portal available for public use. Results show that this approach is successful in discovering a considerable number of Web Services in the GIS(Geographical Information Systems) domain, and demonstrate improvements over existing methods of Web Service Discovery.

Name thesis:degree_name

M.S.

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Computer Science

Year

2007

Author dc:creator

• Shulman, Lev

Contributors dc:contributor

• Abdelguerfi, Mahdi
• Chaudhry, Nauman
• Tu, Shengru

• GIS Web Services
• Web Services
• Web Crawling
• Web Map Services
• XML Data Management
• Automated Discovery of Web Services
• Web Service Portal

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/539

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarworks.uno.edu:td-1539