@article{ea141853ea0a4ea68429ff04d178ba31,
title = "Position paper: Open web-distributed integrated geographic modelling and simulation to enable broader participation and applications",
abstract = "Integrated geographic modelling and simulation is a computational means to improve understanding of the environment. With the development of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and web technologies, it is possible to conduct open, extensible integrated geographic modelling across a network in which resources can be accessed and integrated, and further distributed geographic simulations can be performed. This open web-distributed modelling and simulation approach is likely to enhance the use of existing resources and can attract diverse participants. With this approach, participants from different physical locations or domains of expertise can perform comprehensive modelling and simulation tasks collaboratively. This paper reviews past integrated modelling and simulation systems, highlighting the associated development challenges when moving to an open web-distributed system. A conceptual framework is proposed to introduce a roadmap from a system design perspective, with potential use cases provided. The four components of this conceptual framework - a set of standards, a resource sharing environment, a collaborative integrated modelling environment, and a distributed simulation environment - are also discussed in detail with the goal of advancing this emerging field.",
keywords = "Geographic research, Geographic simulation, Integrated geographic modelling, Open, Web-distributed",
author = "Min Chen and Alexey Voinov and Ames, {Daniel P.} and Kettner, {Albert J.} and Goodall, {Jonathan L.} and Jakeman, {Anthony J.} and Barton, {Michael C.} and Quillon Harpham and Cuddy, {Susan M.} and Cecelia DeLuca and Songshan Yue and Jin Wang and Fengyuan Zhang and Yongning Wen and Guonian L{\"u}",
note = "Funding Information: We express our sincere thanks to Prof.David Tarboton and other anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments. Chen was supported by the NSF for Excellent Young Scholars of China (No. 41622108 ), the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) (No. 2015CB954103 ). L{\"u} and Chen were supported by the Key funding of NSF of China (No. 41930648 ), and the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions (No. 164320H116 ). Kettner was supported by the CSDMS project funded by The US National Science Foundation (grant 1831623 ). Goodall was supported by the US National Science Foundation through award number OAC-1664061 . Funding Information: We express our sincere thanks to Prof.David Tarboton and other anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments. Chen was supported by the NSF for Excellent Young Scholars of China (No. 41622108), the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) (No. 2015CB954103). L? and Chen were supported by the Key funding of NSF of China (No. 41930648), and the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions (No. 164320H116). Kettner was supported by the CSDMS project funded by The US National Science Foundation (grant 1831623). Goodall was supported by the US National Science Foundation through award number OAC-1664061. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 The Authors",
year = "2020",
month = aug,
doi = "10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103223",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "207",
journal = "Earth-Science Reviews",
issn = "0012-8252",
publisher = "Elsevier",
}