Automated tools for mediating incoming interruptions are necessary in order to balance the concentration required for software development with the need to collaborate and absorb ...
Abstract-Maintaining optimal consistency in a distributed system requires that nodes be always-on to synchronize information. Unfortunately, mobile devices such as laptops do not h...
Jacob Sorber, Nilanjan Banerjee, Mark D. Corner, S...
Abstract. One approach to system development is to decompose the requirements into features and specify the individual features before composing them. A major limitation of deferri...
Robin C. Laney, Thein Than Tun, Michael Jackson, B...
We designed, developed, deployed, and evaluated the Collaborative nanoManipulator (CnM), a distributed, collaborative virtual environment system supporting remote scientific colla...
Thomas C. Hudson, Aron T. Helser, Diane H. Sonnenw...
Crowd simulations require both rendering visually plausible images and managing the behavior of autonomous agents. Therefore, these applications need an efficient design that allo...