By federating resources from multiple domains, a shared infrastructure provides aggregated computation resources to a large number of users. With rapid advances in virtualization ...
Dongyan Xu, Paul Ruth, Junghwan Rhee, Rick Kennell...
In this paper we propose a new metaphor of information retrieving, usable in heritage management and publishing. Based on the net, the user is able to participate in virtual guide...
Dorin Mircea Popovici, Serge Morvan, Eric Maisel, ...
A virtual community is a group of people whose shared needs and/or interests are largely communicated within, and mediated by Webenabled interactions, e.g., within a Website. Whil...
Janet Ho, Monica M. C. Schraefel, Mark H. Chignell
Social virtual worlds (SVWs) have become increasingly important environments for social interaction, especially for the younger generations. For SVWs to be economically sustainabl...
The advent of virtual environments such as SecondLife call for a distributed approach for norm emergence and spreading. In open virtual environments, monitoring various interactin...
Bastin Tony Roy Savarimuthu, Maryam Purvis, Martin...