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MIDDLEWARE
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
A Utility-Aware Middleware Architecture for Decentralized Group Communication Applications
Abstract. The success of Internet telephony services like Skype illustrates the feasibility of utilizing unstructured Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks as an economical platform for supp...
Jianjun Zhang, Ling Liu, Lakshmish Ramaswamy, Gong...
CSCWD
2001
Springer
14 years 5 days ago
Supporting Group Awareness in Collaborative Design
Different from multi-user database management systems, CSCW system must support group awareness explicitly, namely that participants should perceive the presence of each other dur...
Yan Liu, Yuanchun Shi, Guangyou Xu
TROB
2002
140views more  TROB 2002»
13 years 7 months ago
Hormone-inspired adaptive communication and distributed control for CONRO self-reconfigurable robots
This paper presents a biologically inspired approach to two basic problems in modular self-reconfigurable robots: adaptive communication in self-reconfigurable and dynamic networks...
Wei-Min Shen, Behnam Salemi, Peter M. Will
ECOOP
1998
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Cyclic Distributed Garbage Collection with Group Merger
This paper presents a new algorithm for distributed garbage collection and outlines its implementation within the Network Objects system. The algorithm is based on a reference list...
Helena Rodrigues, Richard E. Jones
CSCW
1996
ACM
13 years 12 months ago
Talking to Strangers: An Evaluation of the Factors Affecting Electronic Collaboration
This empirical study examines factors influencing the success of a commercial groupware system in creating group archives and supporting asynchronous communication. The study inve...
Steve Whittaker