Automating metadata Web service deployment for problem solving environments

XML-based metadata information services are a crucial core service needed by problem solving environments built over emerging service-based, globally scaled distributed systems, as envisioned by the Open Grid Services Architecture and the Semantic Web. Developing user interfaces and service bindings for manipulating instances of particular schemas is thus extremely important and needs to be made as simple as possible. In this paper we describe procedures for automating the creation of Web service environments that can be used to simplify the creation and deployment of schema-based metadata services. (c) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.