Towards Interoperability in P2P World: An Indexing Middleware for Multi-protocol Peer-to-Peer Data Sharing

Geospatial Analysis and Model Evaluation Software (GAMES): Integrated Web-Based Analysis and Visualization

“…The POSIX (Portable Operating System Inteface for Unix) standard defines an API that allows a wide range of common computing functions to be written such that they may operate on different systems, such as MacOS X, and various Berkeley Software Distributions (BSDs) (Leathrum and Liburdy 1995;Severance 1999); however, making use of this requires recompiling for each platform. A compatible API, on the other hand, allows compiled object code to function without any changes to the system implementing that API (Rezende et al 2009). This is beneficial to software providers because they may distribute existing software on new systems without producing and distributing upgrades.…”