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Using Services and Service Compositions to Enable the Distributed Execution of Legacy Simulation Applications

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Towards a Service-Based Internet (ServiceWave 2011)

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In the field of natural and engineering science, computer simulations play an increasingly important role to explain or predict phenomena of the real world. Although the software landscape is crucial to support scientists in their every day work, we recognized during our work with scientific institutes that many simulation programs can be considered legacy monolithic applications. They are developed without adhering to known software engineering guidelines, lack an acceptable software ergonomics, run sequentially on single workstations and require tedious manual tasks. We are convinced that SOA concepts and the service composition technology can help to improve this situation. In this paper we report on the results of our work on the service- and service composition-based re-engineering of a legacy scientific application for the simulation of the ageing process in copper-alloyed. The underlying general concept for a distributed, service-based simulation infrastructure is also applicable to other scenarios. Core of the infrastructure is a resource manager that steers server work load and handles simulation data.

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  1. Institute of Architecture of Application Systems, University of Stuttgart, Universitaetsstrasse 38, 70569, Stuttgart, Germany

    Mirko Sonntag, Sven Hotta & Dimka Karastoyanova

  2. Institute of Materials Testing, Materials Science and Strength of Materials, University of Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 32, 70569, Stuttgart, Germany

    David Molnar & Siegfried Schmauder

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  1. Department of Information Systems, Poznan University of Economics, al. Niepodleglosci 10, 61-875, Poznan, Poland

    Witold Abramowicz

  2. Complutense University of Madrid, C/Prof. Jose Garcia Santesmases s/n, 28040, Madrid, Spain

    Ignacio M. Llorente

  3. IT Innovation Centre, University of Southampton, Gamma House, Enterprise Road, SO16 7NS, Southampton, UK

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  4. Department of Computing, City University London, Northampton Square, EC1V 0HB, London, UK

    Andrea Zisman

  5. Smart Services CRC, Australian Technology Park, Locomotive Workshop, Suite 9003, 2 Locomotive Street, 2015, Eveleigh, NSW, Australia

    Julien Vayssière

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Sonntag, M., Hotta, S., Karastoyanova, D., Molnar, D., Schmauder, S. (2011). Using Services and Service Compositions to Enable the Distributed Execution of Legacy Simulation Applications. In: Abramowicz, W., Llorente, I.M., Surridge, M., Zisman, A., Vayssière, J. (eds) Towards a Service-Based Internet. ServiceWave 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6994. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24755-2_23

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