Service selection approach for swim consumer application based on semantic annotations in SOAML architecture

The increasing complexity and demand of airspace use has motivated the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to upgrade the current Air Traffic Management (ATM). One of these new technologies that will be implemented in the airspace control system is the System Wide Information Management (SWIM). SWIM is aligned with the principles of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). The SWIM standard does not implement or suggest a semantic service description. This article is concerned with modeling of consumer applications requirement services capabilities based on semantics to improve service discovery and selection. From the perspective of the consumer, it is possible to make services pre-selection that fit system requirements. Anticipating the services´ pre-selection for the consumer system modeling phase, the discovery and selection can be improved. The main goal of this approach is to provide the architecture model with functional and non-functional information about services available that meets the consumer system needs. As viability test, the proposed approach was applied in a case study, a scenario in which a consumer application presents a query report integrating weather services, flight information and airport services. Model experiments show that it is possible to improve the service discovery process with pre-selection services modeled at client application.