We introduce the notion of a conditioned-safe ceremony. A “ceremony” is similar to the conventional notion of a protocol, except that a ceremony explicitly includes human part...
When large groups cooperate, issues of conflict and control surface because of differences in perspective. Managing such diverse views is a persistent problem in cooperative group...
Travis Kriplean, Ivan Beschastnikh, David W. McDon...
First, this paper introduces the concept and the upcoming features of Asynchronous Adaptive Hypermedia Systems (AAHS). The design of a concrete system will show how the new princi...
Significant progress has been made in the design and development of Grid middleware which, in its present form, is founded on service-oriented architecture and web services techno...
Geoff Coulson, Paul Grace, Gordon S. Blair, Wei Ca...
The paper proposes an approach to EUD focusing on communities: on the one hand, users are considered as a community of cooperating actors; on the other hand, applications and devi...