We introduce the notion of a conditioned-safe ceremony. A “ceremony” is similar to the conventional notion of a protocol, except that a ceremony explicitly includes human part...
The increasing proliferation of online shopping and purchasing has naturally led to a growth in the popularity of comparisonshopping search engines, popularly known as "shopb...
Robert S. Garfinkel, Ram D. Gopal, Arvind K. Tripa...
This paper presents a new information acquisition problem motivated by business applications where customer data has to be acquired with a specific modeling objective in mind. In ...
Synchronous groupware is the class of applications in which two or more people collaborate in what they perceive to be real time. Most previous efforts to deploy synchronous group...
The prevalence of audio and video options on computers, coupled with the promise of bandwidth, have many prognosticators predicting a revolution in human communications. But what ...