Declustering and load-balancing methods for parallelizing geographic information systems

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 632-655

  Shekhar, Shashi ^a,b   Ravada, Sivakumar ^a,c   Kumar, Vipin ^a,b   Chubb, Douglas ^d   Turner, Greg ^e  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c ORACLE CORPORATION   (United States)

^d US Army Communications and Electronics Command   (United States)

^e U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Declustering methods; Geographic information systems; High performance; Load balancing; Polygon clipping; Range query

Indexed keywords

DATA TRANSFER; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; QUERY LANGUAGES;

DATA PARTITIONING; DECLUSTERING METHOD; LOAD-BALANCING METHOD;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032115494     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/69.706061     Document Type: Article

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