What do telescopes, databases and compute clusters have in common?

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6274, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Allan, A ^a   Adamson, A ^b   Cavanagh, B ^b   Economou, F ^b   Fraser, S ^c   Jenness, T ^b   Mottram, C ^c   Naylor, T ^a   Saunders, E S ^a   Steele, I A ^c   Vestrand, W T ^d   White, R R ^d   Wozniak, P R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent architectures; Data mining; Distributed computing; eSTAR; Grid; Intelligent agents; Operations; Robotic telescopes; Telescope network; Virtual observatory

Indexed keywords

COMPUTE CLUSTERS; GROUND BASED TELESCOPES; RESOURCE DISCOVERY; ROBOTIC TELESCOPES;

DATABASE SYSTEMS; DECISION MAKING; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 33749584321     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.671360     Document Type: Conference Paper

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