: Manufacturing systems are changing its structure and organisation. Supply chain are evolving to more coupled organisations, like virtual enterprises, though maintaining the singl...
This paper describes a stand-alone network-based video capture and processing peripheral (the Vidboard) for a distributed multimedia system centered around a gigabit-per-second As...
IN:SHOP uses the blue-c 3D video technology to implement distributed shopping in a shared virtual world. IN:SHOP combines traditional shopping and marketing structures with 3D com...
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks have been proposed as a promising approach to create more scalable Networked Virtual Environment (NVE) systems, but P2P-NVE also increases the probabil...
Grid computing is about allocating distributed collections of resources including computers, storage systems, networks and instruments to form a coherent system devoted to a “vir...
Dennis Gannon, Beth Plale, Marcus Christie, Liang ...