Fast insolation computation in large territories

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4487 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 54-61

  Tabik, Siham ^a   Vías, Jesús M ^b   Zapata, Emilio L ^a   Romero, Luis F ^a  

^a Campus de Teatinos   (Spain)

^b Campus de Teatinos   (Spain)

Author keywords

Globus; Horizon computation; Insolation; Very large territories

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATION THEORY; GRID COMPUTING; PROBLEM SOLVING;

HORIZON COMPUTATION; VERY LARGE TERRITORIES;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 37249084797     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-72584-8_8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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