This paper proposes a multiagent based virtual community as a new means to support pervasive computing services. We give a conceptual definition of the concept of Place-Based Virt...
Tuan Nguyen, Seng Wai Loke, Torab Torabi, Hongen L...
Collaborative development, incremental design and revision management require the ability to compare different versions of software artifacts. There are well-established approache...
Arne Schipper, Hauke Fuhrmann, Reinhard von Hanxle...
This paper reports on a UK ESRC-funded project studying representations of practice, in video clips and voice annotations, for professional collaborative learning in distributed o...
Ubicomp applications are characterized as situationaware, frequently-and-ephemerally-communicated and QoS-properties-associated. Using middleware to provide multiple QoS support f...
Stephen S. Yau, Yu Wang, Dazhi Huang, Hoh Peter In
Grid computing is concerned with the sharing and coordinated use of diverse resources in distributed "virtual organizations.” The dynamic and multi-institutional nature of ...
Von Welch, Frank Siebenlist, Ian T. Foster, John B...