A web repository to describe and execute shape oriented workflows

ABSTRACT

The effective use of advanced tools and geometric models across different applications frequently requires model processing to satisfy the application requirements. Besides being time consuming processes, these model adaptations normally employ advanced tools that need specific knowledge for their proper usage. Therefore, it is frequently difficult understanding which tools and operations better fit with the specific purposes.

This paper presents the capabilities of the Visualization Virtual Service (VVS) infrastructure for the creation and retrieval of shape processing workflows either to describe best practice process pipelines or to allow running sequences of web services.

GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT

KEYWORDS:

• Geometric processing
• web repository
• web services
• workflows

Acknowledgments

This work has been partially supported by the European Commission under grant agreement 262044 VISIONAIR (http://www.infra-visionair.eu/) and by the PO CRO Fondo Sociale Europeo Regione Liguria 2007–2013 Asse IV “Capitale Umano” Ob. Specifico I/6 through the project “Tecniche di visualizzazione avanzata di immagini e dati 3D in ambito biomedicale” . The authors want to thank the VISIONAIR partners participating to JRA 9 and, in particular, to Stefano Mottura, Christian Weidig, Lionel Roucoules and Walter Terkaj.

Additional thanks to Marios Pitikakis for the technical support and to Prof. Bianca Falcidieno and all the participants to the AIM@SHAPE NoE for making possible the initial version of the DSW.

ORCID

Marco Attene http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9012-7245

Daniela Cabiddu http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5797-4189

Franca Giannini http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3608-6737

Marina Monti http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1627-3551