As part of an investigation of scalable development techniques for systems written in the JavaTM programming language, the Forest Project is building JP, a prototype distributed pr...
Hospital surgery environments are dynamic and high risk. They require coordination across multiple groups whose incentives, cultures, and routines can conflict. In this paper, we ...
Yuqing Ren, Sara B. Kiesler, Susan R. Fussell, Pet...
A rather recent approach in programming parallel and distributed systems is that of coordination models and languages. Coordination programming enjoys a number of advantages such a...
Families must continually organize, plan, and stay aware of the activities of their households in order to coordinate everyday life. Despite having organization schemes, many peop...
: Perusal of textual displays of document surrogates produced by Web-based ranked-output retrieval services may require much user time, effort, and money. In this paper we present ...