An experiment with reflective middleware to support grid-based flood monitoring

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1303-1316

  Hughes, Danny ^a   Greenwood, Phil ^a   Blair, Gordon ^a   Coulson, Geoff ^a   Grace, Paul ^a   Pappenberger, Florian ^b   Smith, Paul ^b   Beven, Keith ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Grid; Middleware; WSN

Indexed keywords

MIDDLEWARE; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

COMPONENT BASED; FIXED NETWORKS; FLOOD MODELLING; FLOOD MONITORING; GRID; GRID APPLICATIONS; GRID COMPUTATION; REFLECTIVE MIDDLEWARE;

FLOODS;

EID: 49149111427     PISSN: 15320626     EISSN: 15320634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.1279     Document Type: Conference Paper

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