Exposing Metaheuristics as Web Services in Distributed Systems using OpenCF

Web Services (WS) have emerged as an industry standard attracting the attention of the scientific community as technological alternative for implementing computational portals. Using the OpenCF computational framework, we develop the p-hub Web Service Portal (p-HubWSP) to provide a platform with capabilities for the efficient execution of metaheuristics for p-hub problems through the Internet. The technology used eases the implementation of a web-accessed computing system. The p-HubWSP portal greatly eases the access and use of sequential and parallel codes and platforms.