There is an urgent need to provide a sound generic framework for method and tool integration, where many differing notations are used, software development is distributed and mana...
—Constraints allow users to declare relationships among objects and let the constraint systems maintain and satisfy these relationships. Formulas have been adopted to express con...
Kai Lin, David Chen, R. Geoff Dromey, Chengzheng S...
A field study of Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) as used in higher education asks the questions, "Will students take part in synchronous chat sessions if they are sched...
We sought to create a social embodied conversational agent to support group interactions, using ‘balance theory’ from social science research on human-human relations. We cond...
Abstract. A long-running transaction is an interactive component of a distributed system which must be executed as if it were a single atomic action. In principle, it should not be...