[工程科技]BSML A Binding Schema Markup Language for Data Interchange in Problem Solving Environments.pdf

BSML: A Binding Schema Markup Language for Data Interchange in Problem Solving Environments∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ Alex Verstak , Naren Ramakrishnan , Layne T. Watson , Jian He , Clifford A. Shaffer , † † † † Kyung Kyoon Bae , Jing Jiang , William H. Tranter , and Theodore S. Rappaport ∗Department of Computer Science †Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Blacksburg, Virginia 24061 Contact: naren@cs.vt.edu Abstract We describe a binding schema markup language (BSML) for describing data interchange between scientific codes. Such a facility is an important constituent of scientific problem solving environments (PSEs). BSML is designed to integrate with a PSE or application composition system that views model specification and execution as a problem of managing semistructured data. The data interchange problem is addressed by three techniques for processing semistructured data: validation, binding, and conversion. We present BSML and describe its applica- tion to a PSE for wireless communications system design. 1 Introduction Problem solving environments (PSEs) are high-level software systems for doing computational science. A simple example of a PSE is the Web PELLPACK system [20] that addresses the domain of partial differential equations (PDEs). Web PELLPACK allows the scientist to access the s