SUNPRISM: An approach and software tools for collaborative climate change research

Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems, CTS 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 583-590

  Okamoto, Sohei ^a   Hoang, Roger V ^a   Dascalu, Sergiu M ^a   Harris, Frederick C ^a   Belkhatir, Noureddine ^b  

^a University of Nevada   (United States)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

collaborative research; data visualization; model interoperability; software tools; SUNPRISM approach; workflow based environment

Indexed keywords

3-D ENVIRONMENTS; APPLICATION SCENARIO; CODE GENERATION; COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH; DATA FORMAT; DATA SETS; DATA TRANSFORMATION; DATAFLOW; HETEROGENEOUS DATA; IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; MODEL INTEROPERABILITY; MODEL SIMULATION; OBJECT-BASED INTERFACES; SCIENTIFIC EXPLORATION; SUNPRISM APPROACH; SUPPORTING TOOL; VISUALIZERS; WORKFLOW-BASED ENVIRONMENT;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA VISUALIZATION; INTEROPERABILITY; MANAGERS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

RESEARCH;

EID: 84866925401     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CTS.2012.6261109     Document Type: Conference Paper

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