Chimera: A virtual data system for representing, querying, and automating data derivation

Proceedings of the International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, SSDBM

Volumn 2002-January, Issue , 2002, Pages 37-46

  Foster, I ^a,b   Vockler J ^b   Wilde, M ^a   Zhao, Yong ^b  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational modeling; Computer applications; Data systems; Discrete event simulation; Distributed computing; Distributed databases; Documentation; Grid computing; Physics; Processor scheduling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS; GRID COMPUTING; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PHYSICS; QUERY LANGUAGES; QUERY PROCESSING; SYSTEM PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION;

COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; COMPUTATIONAL PROCEDURES; DATA SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED DATABASE; EXPLICIT REPRESENTATION; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS EXPERIMENTS; LANGUAGE INTERPRETERS; PROCESSOR SCHEDULING;

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EID: 84948706138     PISSN: 10993371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SSDM.2002.1029704     Document Type: Conference Paper

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