Optimistic replication is a fundamental technique for supporting concurrent work practices in mobile environments. However, due to sudden and frequent transitions to weakly connec...
The users of libraries of object-oriented software components face with both a terminological and a cognitive gap. Usually, library users do not understand the vocabulary used in t...
Google Maps and its spin-offs are highly successful, but they have a major limitation: users see only pictures of geographic data. These data are inaccessible except by limited ve...
With the goal of supporting the knowledge circulation and creation process in a society, we have studied story-based communication in a network community. On the basis of this res...
Yukiko I. Nakano, Toshihiro Murayama, Masashi Okam...
Although there has been recent research into ways to design environments that enable end users to create their own programs, little attention has been given to helping these end u...
Margaret M. Burnett, Andrei Sheretov, Bing Ren, Gr...