Distributed Web GIS

J. Guan; S. Zhou; J. Zhou; F. Zhu

doi:10.4018/978-1-59904-002-8.ch037

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Distributed Web GIS

J. Guan (Tongji University, China), S. Zhou (Fudan University, China), J. Zhou (Wuhan University, China) and F. Zhu (Wuhan University, China)

Source Title: Encyclopedia of Mobile Computing and Commerce

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-002-8.ch037

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Abstract

This article presents the MADGIS (Mobile Agent-based Distributed Geographic Information System) project, which aims at integrating distributed Web GIS applications by using mobile agent technologies to overcome the limitations of traditional distributed computing paradigms in a (mobile) Internet context.

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