Automatic generation of web client interfaces for remote execution of Matlab simulations

Abstract

Matlab is a widely used tool in industry and education for numerical computation of mathematical problems. Former versions of Matlab had a built-in Web server which was used to run scripts over the web browser. Newer versions of Matlab lack this functionality. However, recent versions of Matlab allow users to interact with REST-based web services. Considering the above, this paper does not only demonstrate a new possibility on how to build up a communication between a web client in a browser and a Matlab script with the use of the iLab Service Broker and the Experiment Dispatcher, but also shows how a GUI for a web client can be generated dynamically, with basic information of the script encoded as a JSON string. With this approach developers can run their scripts from a web browser and do not need any knowledge in web languages like HTML or JavaScript.