A virtual organisation deployed on a service orientated architecture for distributed data mining applications

Abstract

Industrial and scientific research activity increasingly involves the geographically distributed utilisation of multiple tools, services and distributed data. Grid and Service Orientated Architecture concepts are being widely investigated as a means to deploy Virtual Organisations to support the needs for distributed collaboration. A generic Distributed Tool, Service and Data Architecture is described together with its application to the aero-engine domain through the BROADEN project. Two fundamental issues for the design of the VO have been addressed: how to maximise the potential of Grid computing to address the complex data mining challenges in the condition monitoring application; and how to maximise the potential of a SOA to build and deploy a flexible and efficient collaborative workbench that integrates the required tools and services. © 2007 International Federation for Information Processing.