The authors have some experience in building virtual worlds for education purposes, in archaeology and for language learning. However, many mainstream world-building applications ...
A mirror world, which is a virtual space modeling a physical space, attracts enormous interests from VR community recently. Various applications such as Second Life, Google Earth a...
Powerful servers for computation and storage, high-speed networking resources, and high-performance 3D graphics workstation, which are typically available in scientific research e...
We present two projects that facilitate collective music creativity over networks. One system is a participative social music system on mobile devices. The other is a collaborativ...
A principle task in parallel and distributed systems is to reduce the communication load in the interconnection network, as this is usually the major bottleneck for the performanc...