A semantic service‐oriented architecture for distributed model management systems

This paper presents a service‐oriented architecture for DMMS. The proposed architecture leverages service‐oriented design principles and recent developments in semantic web services to enable model sharing and reuse in a distributed setting. The paper describes a prototype implementation, case study scenarios, and a discussion highlighting lessons learned and implications for research and practice. Decision models are organizational resources that need to be managed to facilitate sharing and reuse. In today's networked economy, the ubiquity of the Internet and distributed computing environments further amplifies the need and the potential for distributed model management system (DMMS) that manages decision models throughout the modeling lifecycle and throughout the extended enterprise.