VERN is an online collaborative tool that coordinates and distributes the process of finding optimal meeting times across the members of a group. The system combines the underlyin...
People routinely rely on Internet search engines to support their use of interactive systems: they issue queries to learn how to accomplish tasks, troubleshoot problems, and other...
The primary objective of a knowledge-based system (KBS) is to use stored knowledge to provide support for decision-making activities. Empirical studies identify improvements in de...
During the last year we have been designing and studying a computer based tool intended to strengthen social group awareness within a research laboratory. While awareness has been...
This paper examines the problem of building scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems from collections of communicating process groups, while maintaining well-defined end-to-en...