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GeoMiddleware to Support Interoperability for Grid Computing

Overview Middleware is software that is designed to support the interoperability of computer applications that use (and/or produce) different types of information. Middleware for geographic applications is particularly important because required information may have scale dependent relationships, which may cascade to cause problems related to level of generalization, dimension change, and categorical precision. In this paper a general geographic information processing problem is set out as a way to motivate discussion about the use of middleware to support analyses in distributed, heterogeneous Grid computing environments.

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Publisher	The University of Iowa	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	October 2004	Downloads	103
Format	White Papers
Topics	Middleware, High Performance Computing

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