Between classical and ideal: Enhancing wildland fire prediction using cluster computing

Cluster Computing

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 329-343

  Abdalhaq, Baker ^a   Cortés, Ana ^a   Margalef, Tomàs ^a   Bianchini, Germán ^a   Luque, Emilio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cluster computing; Evolutionary optimization; Fire prediction

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748880455     PISSN: 13867857     EISSN: 15737543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10586-006-9745-4     Document Type: Article

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