Building on the work of games theorists and virtual world designers, this paper proposes a framework for understanding the real-virtual dichotomy in terms of a series of five fram...
The rising awareness of the challenges of preserving information over the long term has led to a wealth of initiatives developing economic models, methods, tools, systems, guideli...
As third party logistic services become popular, the role of software agents increases in importance in terms of the logistics scheduling of buyers and sellers. To support many mo...
The existing thread scheduler in FreeBSD was well suited towards the computing environment that it was developed in. As the priorities and hardware targets of the project have cha...
Identity management has arisen as a major and urgent challenge for internet-based communications and information services. Internet services involve complex networks of relationshi...