GISolve: A grid-based problem solving environment for computationally intensive geographic information analysis

Proceedings - Challenges of Large Applications in Distributed Environments, CLADE 2005

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 3-12

  Wang, Shaowen ^a   Armstrong, Marc P ^a   Ni, Jun ^a,b   Liu, Yan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b University of Iowa   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEO-MIDDLEWARE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION ANALYSIS; OPEN GRID SERVICE ARCHITECTURE (OGSA);

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MIDDLEWARE; WORLD WIDE WEB;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 33748861468     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CLADE.2005.1520892     Document Type: Conference Paper

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