A cloud computing approach to on-demand and scalable CyberGIS analytics

ScienceCloud 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Workshop on Scientific Cloud Computing, Co-located with HPDC 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 17-24

  Riteau, Pierre ^a   Gao, Yizhao ^b   Hwang, Myunghwa ^b   Liu, Yan ^b   Wang, Shaowen ^b   Padmanabhan, Anand ^b   Keahey, Kate ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auto scaling; Cloud computing; CyberGIS; Geographic information systems (GIS)

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RISK MANAGEMENT;

AUTO-SCALING; CLOUD COMPUTING SERVICES; COMPUTATIONAL CAPABILITY; CYBER INFRASTRUCTURES; CYBERGIS; PROBLEM SOLVING ENVIRONMENTS; SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION; SPATIO-TEMPORAL SCALE;

CLOUD COMPUTING;

EID: 84904572595     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2608029.2608032     Document Type: Conference Paper

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