Integrating semantic and syntactic descriptions for chaining geographic services

Accelerating the development of complex and heterogeneous geographic services requires improved methods that integrate service discovery, composition, and reuse. We present an integrated use of semantic and syntactic service descriptions for service chaining, by combining an application that supports service discovery and abstract composition, with another that supports concrete composition and execution of services. This facilitates the use of XML-based service description languages for building a geo-service-reuse architecture based on common ontologies and shared service descriptions.