BSML: A binding schema markup language for data interchange in problem solving environments

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Verstak, Alex | Ramakrishnan, Naren | Watson, Layne T. | He, Jian | Shaffer, Clifford A. | Bae, Kyung Kyoon | Jiang, Jing | Tranter, William H. | Rappaport, Theodore S.

Affiliations: Department of Computer Science, | Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA. E-mail: 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 application to a PSE for wireless communications system design.

Journal: Scientific Programming, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 199-224, 2003