Decision-making System as a Service in the Computing Cloud

Abstract

Cloud computing presents scientists and engineers with new challenges related to the architecture of information systems and their use. This paper addresses the problem of deployment of decision supporting system in computing cloud. The author of the document presented the application of this approach that lies on intelligent discovery of web services within geographic information systems. Many important aspects of nowadays IT systems have been considered like the domain of Web GIS, network of agents architecture, semantics and ontology, integration of external knowledge bases, deployment of applications into the cloud. It has been proven that based on them, it is possible to create a software that uses a natural language to submit queries to a system whose operating environment is a PaaS (Platform as a Service) class platform. Another aspect discussed in this article was the approach to build so-called virtual organizations in which data and knowledge exchange takes place via web services. As an example, integration with Google Geocoding API is shown, where the web API provides geographic location based on the location expressed in natural language, e.g. home address, tourist point.