@article{GranellCanut2014a,

title = {Assessment of OGC web processing services for REST principles},

author = { Carlos Granell-Canut and Laura Díaz-Sánchez and Alain Tamayo-Fong and Joaquín Huerta-Guijarro},

url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10234/124443},

doi = {10.1504/IJDMMM.2014.066765},

issn = {1759-1163},

year  = {2014},

date = {2014-01-01},

journal = {International Journal of Data Mining, Modelling and Management},

volume = {6},

number = {4},

pages = {391-412},

publisher = {Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.},

abstract = {Recent distributed computing trends advocate the use of REpresentational State Transfer (REST) to alleviate the inherent complexity of the web services standards in building service-oriented web applications. In this paper we focus on the particular case of geospatial services interfaced by the OGC web processing service (WPS) specification in order to assess whether WPS-based geospatial services can be viewed from the architectural principles exposed in REST. Our concluding remarks suggest that the adoption of REST principles, to specially harness the built-in mechanisms of the HTTP application protocol, may be beneficial in scenarios where ad hoc composition of geoprocessing services are required, common for most non-expert users of geospatial information infrastructures.},

keywords = {Geospatial information infrastructures, Geospatial processing services, OGC, REST, RESTful applications, Spatial information integration, Spatial information modelling},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}