Distributed computing has taken a new importance in order to meet the requirements of users demanding information “anytime, anywhere.” Inferno facilitates the creation and sup...
Many universities and further education colleges provide Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs). In recent years a new direction has been to extend these to support Personal Develop...
Tony Chan, Dan Corlett, Mike Sharples, Jeffrey Tin...
This paper aims to study how to gain the consistency of the state in a DVE (Distributed Virtual Environment) with lag, under the condition of peer-to-peer architecture. That is, w...
With the emergence of global market and virtual enterprises, coordination of business processes in dispersed organizations by distributed workflow execution will take on more impo...
Today's complex applications must face the distribution of data and code among different network nodes. Computation in distributed contexts is demanding increasingly powerful...