Rapid advancement of communication technology has changed the landscape of computing. New models of computing, such as business-on-demand, Web services, peer-to-peer networks, and...
We report the results of a long-term, multi-site field trial of a situated awareness device for families called the “Whereabouts Clock”. The Clock displayed family members’ c...
Barry A. T. Brown, Alex S. Taylor, Shahram Izadi, ...
We present the architecture of nreduce, a distributed virtual machine which uses parallel graph reduction to run programs across a set of computers. It executes code written in a ...
Peter M. Kelly, Paul D. Coddington, Andrew L. Wend...
To leverage location-related information is useful to get an in-depth perspective on environmental circumstances, traffic situations and/or other problems. To handle the large nu...
Abstract. Computers support more and more tasks in the personal and professional activities of users. Such user tasks increasingly span large periods of time and many locations acr...