The Ecobase project
Luc Bouganim, Maria Cláudia Cavalcanti, Françoise Fabret, María Luiza Machado Campos, François Llirbat, Marta Mattoso, Rubens Nascimento Melo, Ana Maria Moura, Esther Pacitti, Fabio Andre Machado Porto, Margareth Simões, Eric Simon, Asterio Kiyoshi Tanaka, Patrick Valduriez · ACM SIGMOD Record · 2001
A very large number of data sources on environment, energy, and natural resources are available worldwide. Unfortunately, users usually face several problems when they want to search and use relevant information. In the Ecobase project, we address these problems in the context of several environmental applications in Brazil and Europe. We propose a distributed architecture for environmental information systems (EIS) based on the Le Select middleware developed at INRIA. In this paper, we present this architecture and its capabilities, and discuss the lessons learned and open issues.