Today many people with serious diseases use online support groups to seek social support. For these groups to be sustained and effective, member retention and commitment is import...
Software agents are a major innovation in how people use information systems, and they have parallels with how Decision Support Systems (DSS) support human decision-making. A DSS ...
In this paper, we examine two architectural alternatives— native OS support versus middleware—for supporting multimedia applications. Specifically, we examine whether extensi...
Prashant J. Shenoy, Saif Hasan, Purushottam Kulkar...
Learners and knowledge workers are increasingly facing environments where frequent interruptions, multi-tasking, information overload, and insufficient community awareness are the ...