Wikipedia is nowadays a widely used encyclopedia, and one of the most visible sites on the Internet. Its strong principle of collaborative work and free editing sometimes generate...
Online production groups have the potential to transform the way that knowledge is produced and disseminated. One of the most widely used forms of online production is the wiki, w...
—When a virtual environment system prevents a user’s avatar hand from penetrating virtual objects, the seen and felt positions of the hand separate. We propose a new method for...
Eric Burns, Sharif Razzaque, Mary C. Whitton, Fred...
Up until now little support has been provided for shared state systems in environments with highly unpredictable network connections, such as mobile networks. Shared state conflic...
Policies are a means of influencing management behaviour within a distributed system, without coding the behaviour into the managers. Authorisation policies specify what activitie...