Desktop notifications are designed to provide awareness of information while a user is attending to a primary task. Unfortunately the awareness can come with the price of disrupti...
Spyware is a significant problem for most computer users. The term “spyware” loosely describes a new class of computer software. This type of software may track user activitie...
Efforts are underway to make it possible for a single operator to effectively control multiple robots. In these high workload situations, many questions arise including how many r...
We consider a variation of the resource allocation problem. In the traditional problem, there is a global planner who would like to assign a set of players to a set of resources s...
Social virtual worlds (SVWs) have become increasingly popular spaces for social interaction. To be attractive to engage with, maintaining a sufficient base of active users is a si...