Group communication primitives have broad utility as building blocks for distributed applications. The challenge is to create and maintain the distributed structures that support ...
Matei Ripeanu, Adriana Iamnitchi, Ian T. Foster, A...
Self-explaining has been repeatedly shown to result in positive learning outcomes for students in a wide variety of disciplines. However, there are two potential accounts for why s...
We have developed a series of ambient information systems and used each in our research lab for extended periods of time. The systems use technologies such as RFID, RSS, and Phidg...
John T. Stasko, Myungcheol Doo, Brian Dorn, Christ...
In this paper, we study Skype and Google Talk, two widely used VoIP systems, and compare their perceptual speech quality with that of our proposed system using UDP packet traces c...
The successful deployment of peer-to-peer (P2P) live video streaming systems has practically demonstrated that it can scale to reliably support a large population of peers. Howeve...