We present a specification for a new, localized group membership service that maintains the membership status of adjacent nodes – called neighbors – in a mobile distributed s...
This paper reports our experiences on the Scalable Network Of Workstation (SNOW) project, which implements a novel methodology to support user-level process migration for traditio...
The concept of the core group of developers is important and often discussed in empirical studies of FLOSS projects. This paper examines the question, “how does one empirically ...
Kevin Crowston, Kangning Wei, Qing Li, James Howis...
Distributed group facilitation techniques are becoming a necessity because many of the face-toface facilitation techniques are no longer suitable in a distributed environment. Alt...
Since networks and computing systems are vital components of today's life, it is of utmost importance to endow them with the capability to survive physical and logical faults...