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Network geographic/geospatial information systems (GIS) performance (NGP) refers to the level of quality of services (QoS) of a network GIS. NGP includes both the efficient use of network-GIS resources (CPU, memory, massive storage, geospatial data and geospatial services) and the perception of speed of a network GIS (Apple Developer Connection 2006). Network GIS is a GIS where the geospatial data and geospatial processing are distributed across a computer network (Yang et al. 2006). The performance (Evans and Clarence 2007) can be broken down into different factors, such as user-perceived system response time, system reliability, system extensibility, and system service quota. Different practitioners with different roles for a network GIS have different views of NGP (Table 1).
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Yang, P., Evans, J. (2017). Network GIS Performance. In: Shekhar, S., Xiong, H., Zhou, X. (eds) Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17885-1_877
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