We report an empirical study of a synchronous messaging application with group-oriented functionality designed to support teams in the workplace. In particular, the tool supports ...
Conventions are necessary to establish in any recurrent cooperative arrangement. In electronic work, they are important so as to regulate the use of shared objects. Based on empir...
Abstract-This paper discusses the design and evaluation of CATNIP, a ContextAware Transport/Network Internet Protocol for the Web. This integrated protocol uses application-layer k...
Data warehouses offer a compromise between freshness of data and query evaluation times. However, a fixed preference ratio between these two variables is too undifferentiated. Wit...
Developing large-scale distributed applications can be a daunting task. One of the problems that application developers are confronted with is the distribution of data, processes, ...