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

This paper presents a study about the use of metadata
standards for the area of Biodiversity Informatics. Species
Distribution Modeling tools generated models that offer
information about species distribution and allow scientists,
researchers, environmentalists, companies and govern to
make decisions to protect and preserve biodiversity. Studies
reveal that this area require new technologies and this
include the interoperability between models generated by
Species Distribution Tools. To ensure interoperability, we
present a schema that use metadata standards to generate
XML archives that contain all information necessary to reuse
models of species distribution. This is part of a complex
system that involves concepts of species distribution
modeling, and computational concepts of interoperability.
Therefore, the use of tools to assist the understanding of the
process involved in these complex systems, supports this
research in order to arrive at a more complete and
satisfactory solution.