Providing Geographic-Multidimensional Decision Support over the Web

For the last years, many researchers have been addressing their efforts to try to solve the problem regarding the integration between analytic and geographic processing systems. The main goal is to provide users with a system capable of processing both geographic and multidimensional data by abstracting the complexity of separately querying and analyzing these data in a decision making process. However, this integration may not be fully achieved yet or may be built by using proprietary technologies. This paper presents a service integration model for supporting analytic and/or geographic requests over the Web. This model has been implemented by a Web Service, named GMLA WS, which is strongly based on standardized technologies such as Web Services, Java and XML. The GMLA WS query results are displayed using a Web browser as maps and/or tables for helping users in their decision making.

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