Improving scientists' interaction with complex computational-visualization environments based on a distributed grid infrastructure

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 363, Issue 1833, 2005, Pages 1867-1884

  Kalawsky, R S ^a   O'Brien, J ^a   Coveney, P V ^b  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computational steering; Grid; Human factors; User interaction; Visualization

Indexed keywords

EID: 25144496123     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2005.1616     Document Type: Review

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