We report on our experiences of introducing an instant messaging and group chat application into geographically distributed workgroups. We describe a number of issues we encounter...
James D. Herbsleb, David L. Atkins, David G. Boyer...
The communication mechanism used by the biological cells of higher animals is an integral part of an organisms ability to tolerate cell deficiency or loss. The massive redundancy ...
This paper presents a loosely coupled service-composition paradigm. This paradigm employs a distributed data flow that differs markedly from centralized information flow adopted b...
David Liu, Jun Peng, Kincho H. Law, Gio Wiederhold
Pervasive personal communication technologies offer the potential for important social benefits for individual users, but also the potential for significant social difficulties an...
The modern electric power grid is a complex interconnected network of independent physical and electronic devices that utilize myriad technologies for communication between other ...