Modeling Problem Solving Environments Using Eai Concepts

Problem Solving Environment (PSE) provides computational facilities to the activities carried out by scientists. The development of this kind of applications is a real challenge for the scientific community. At present, complex software systems, to provide computing services at different levels, are built as the integration of remote and distributed software and hardware components. The key to manage these challenges lies mainly on how the software architecture is designed. On the other hand, the specification of the organizational process to be supported by the application is also an important aspect. Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and Enterprise Architectures frameworks have been developed to facilitate and unify the development of enterprise systems. Enterprise systems are proposed as integrated information systems, covering most of the enterprise business process. An EAI framework (EAIF) provides a unifying description of this kind of systems facilitating their evaluation and their comparison. This work aims to apply the conceptual models proposed in the area of integrated information systems to the context of PSE. The mapping of concepts can be considered as a way to evaluate a PSE because it will allow to identify precisely central aspects of integration platform that could be missing or need improvement. The mapping can also increase the understanding of the needs and, hopefully, the awareness of new opportunities for improving the system