Understanding collaborative work practices represents a critical factor in and a necessary fundament for the development of effective Computer Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW) ...
Although many QoS management architectures have been recently introduced with a lot of advanced features, they have never been widely used in the existing applications due to the ...
The first mass-produced pervasive computing devices are starting to appear—the AutoPC, the Internet-connected ScreenFridge, and the combination Microwave Oven/Home Banking term...
Andrew C. Huang, Benjamin C. Ling, Shankar Ponneka...
Group communication primitives have broad utility as building blocks for distributed applications. The challenge is to create and maintain the distributed structures that support ...
Matei Ripeanu, Adriana Iamnitchi, Ian T. Foster, A...
We analyze the social network emerging from the user comment activity on the website Slashdot. The network presents common features of traditional social networks such as a giant ...