The Earth Observing System (EOS) Data and Information System (EOSDIS) is perhaps one of the most important examples of a large-scale, geographicallydistributed, and data-intensive...
The size of Internet has been growing very fast and many documents appear every day in the Net. Users find many problems to obtain the information that they really need. In order t...
The Unified Modeling Language (UML) currently proposes a mechanism to model recurrent design structures: the parameterized collaborations. The main goal of this mechanism is to mo...
Drawing on studies of experimental systems and everyday settings we explore the relationship between social interaction and its environment. We show how interaction is inextricably...
Christian Heath, Paul Luff, Hideaki Kuzuoka, Keiic...
Group Decision Support Systems (GDSS) present important limitations that constrain their usage in current organisations. The fundamental reason is the lack of integration in the c...