This paper presents the first in-depth evaluation of a large multi-format virtual conference. The conference took place in an avatar-based 3D virtual world with spatialized audio,...
Thomas Erickson, N. Sadat Shami, Wendy A. Kellogg,...
Abstract: GRIDs technology has developed from first generation, supplier-specific and configurationspecific systems through second generation systems providing metacomputing facili...
This keynote paper: (1) presents the 21st century vision of computing and identifies various IT paradigms promising to deliver computing as a utility; (2) defines the architecture ...
: Computing is being transformed to a model consisting of services that are commoditised and delivered in a manner similar to utilities such as water, electricity, gas, and telepho...
spectives. A total of 149 abstracts were accepted and presented in the poster session and 31 of them were selected for oral presentation. At the opening of the meeting, Roderic Gui...