eSTAR: Intelligent observing and rapid responses

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5496, Issue , 2004, Pages 313-322

  Allan, Alasdair ^a   Naylor, Tim ^a   Steele, Iain ^b   Jenness, Tim ^c   Cavanagh, Brad ^c   Economou, Frossie ^c   Saunders, Eric ^a   Adamson, Andy ^c   Etherton, Jason ^b   Mottram, Chris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Brokers; Escience; Estar; Grid computing; Grid services; Intelligent agents; Interoperability; Multi agent systems; Robotic telescopes; Web services

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION DETECTORS; DATA MINING; INTEROPERABILITY; ROBOTS; TELESCOPES; VIRTUAL REALITY;

BROKERS; ESCIENCE; ESTAR; GRID COMPUTING; GRID SERVICES; MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS; ROBOTIC TELESCOPES; WEB SERVICES;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EID: 19944426918     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.550433     Document Type: Conference Paper

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