Synchronous groupware depends on the assumption that people are fully connected to the others in the group, but there are many situations (network delay, network outage, or explic...
Carl Gutwin, T. C. Nicholas Graham, Christopher Wo...
The Common Instrument Middleware Architecture (CIMA) is being used as a core component of a portal based remote instrument access system being developed as an Australian e-Science...
Ian M. Atkinson, Douglas du Boulay, Clinton Chee, ...
Abstract. Due to the complexity and uncertainties, the engineering process requires dynamic collaborations among the heterogeneous systems and human interactions. In this paper, we...
Jian Cao, Jie Wang, Shen-sheng Zhang, Minglu Li, K...
Emerging Web services standards enable the development of large-scale applications in open environments. In particular, they enable services to be dynamically bound. However, curr...
Computer graphics forms an important part of a working scientist’s tools. This may be provided by resources with the scientist’s group or by capabilities of the toolkits that ...