MapReduce provides a parallel and scalable programming model for data-intensive business and scientific applications. MapReduce and its de facto open source project, called Hadoop...
This paper describes mechanisms for asynchronous collaboration in the context of information visualization, recasting visualizations as not just analytic tools, but social spaces....
We propose a novel approach for de ning and querying a super-peer within a schema-based super-peer network organized into a two-level architecture: the low level, called the peer l...
We have designed and implemented a desktop sharing system based on P2P (peer-to-peer) techniques, named “comDesk,” which enables users to exchange the desktop images as well as...
The MPEG-4 standard specifies a set of low-level animation parameters for body animation, but does not provide any high-level functionality for the control of avatars or embodied...