Abstract. Utility computing offers researchers and businesses the potential of significant cost-savings in that it is possible for them to match the cost of their computing and s...
Terence J. Harmer, Peter Wright, Christina Cunning...
—User-level communication allows an application process to access the network interface directly. Bypassing the kernel requires that a user process accesses the network interface...
We describe an environment for distributed computing that uses the concept of well-known paradigms. The main advantage of paradigmoriented distributed computing (PODC) is that the...
Hairong Kuang, Lubomir Bic, Michael B. Dillencourt...
This paper reports on an empirical study that uses a Grounded Theory approach to investigate the creative practices of Machinima filmmakers. Machinima is a new digital film produc...
Nicholas Davis, Boyang Li, Brian O'Neill, Mark Rie...
The past decades have witnessed a rapid growth of Distributed Interactive Multimedia Environments (DIMEs). Despite their intensity of user-involved interaction, the existing evalu...