— IEEE 802.11 WLAN has been widely accepted throughout the world. However, it has large overhead due to idle backoff slots and frequent collisions depending on the number of node...
This paper describes the issues confronted by the climateprediction.net project in creating a volunteer computing project using a large legacy climate model application. This appl...
The Grid provides infrastructure that allows an arbitrary application to be executed on a range of different computational resources. When input files are very large, or when faul...
One of the unknowns of emailing is the time it will take the receiver to form and post a reply. Response times vary considerably, and the chronemics of email are an important non-...
This paper is concerned with the question of how activity mediated by shared representations–notations that are manipulated by more than one person during a collaborative taskâ€...