Process interoperability between biodiversity modeling systems: Engineering of complex systems.

This paper presents a study about the use of metadatastandards for the area of Biodiversity Informatics. SpeciesDistribution Modeling tools generated models that offerinformation about species distribution and allow scientists,researchers, environmentalists, companies and govern tomake decisions to protect and preserve biodiversity. Studiesreveal that this area require new technologies and thisinclude the interoperability between models generated bySpecies Distribution Tools. To ensure interoperability, wepresent a schema that use metadata standards to generateXML archives that contain all information necessary to reusemodels of species distribution. This is part of a complexsystem that involves concepts of species distributionmodeling, and computational concepts of interoperability.Therefore, the use of tools to assist the understanding of theprocess involved in these complex systems, supports thisresearch in order to arrive at a more complete andsatisfactory solution.