ENGINEERING SIMULATIONS WITH WEB-BASED SERVICES

The web services model is becoming a popular approach for integrating software applications to improve the flexibility and extend the functionalities of a software application by making it interoperable with other application services. With the continuing rapid growth of online information sources, the integration of such services can further include many up-to-date information for engineering simulations. Three example applications are presented to demonstrate that the web service approach can potentially have significant impacts in facility design and engineering.