Model as a Service (MaaS)

An important challenge in today's environmental models is to support the migration from stand-alone applications to services on the Web in the context of a wider environmental user community of service providers and service consumers. We refer to this shift in the way environmental models are provided as Model as a Service (MaaS). This paper introduces the MaaS concept, exemplifies it with a case study from the area of oil spill risk analysis, and highlights future challenges for this emerging concept.