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PACT
2001
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
2001
Springer
In the framework of distributed object systems, this paper presents the concepts and an implementation of an overlapping mechanism between communication and computation. This mecha...
CHI
1999
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
1999
ACM
The role of computers in the modern office has tended to split our activities between virtual interactions in the realm of the computer and physical interactions with real objects...
CIG
2006
IEEE
15 years 5 months ago
2006
IEEE
—The ChessBrain project currently holds an official Guinness World Record for the largest number of computers used to play one single game of chess. In this paper, we cover the l...
INFOCOM
2009
IEEE
15 years 5 months ago
2009
IEEE
: Applications such as Second Life require massive deployment of servers worldwide to support a large number of users. We investigate experimentally how Peer-to-Peer (P2P) communic...
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FPLAY
2008
15 years 19 days ago
2008
This paper describes World of Warcraft as a ludic cyborg -- an entity that exists for play and depends on both artificial and organic components to survive. We argue that the popu...