This paper looks at existing computer games and virtual environments from the perspective of film theory and practice. From this, we will draw conclusions about the ways in which ...
In light of the increased awareness of global energy consumption, questions are also being asked about the contribution of computing equipment. Though studies have documented the ...
For over a century, citizen scientists have volunteered to collect huge quantities of data for professional scientists to analyze. We designed Pathfinder, an online environment th...
Kurt Luther, Scott Counts, Kristin B. Stecher, Aar...
In this paper, we consider the problem of supporting fault tolerance for adaptive and time-critical applications in heterogeneous and unreliable grid computing environments. Our g...
—Autonomic computing is a paradigm that aims at reducing administrative overhead by providing autonomic managers to make applications self-managing. In order to better deal with ...
Ahmad Al-Shishtawy, Vladimir Vlassov, Per Brand, S...