Ad hoc groups, such as peer-to-peer (P2P) systems and mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) represent recent technological advancements. They support low-cost, scalable and fault-tolera...
This paper presents Manas, a Semiotic Engineering epistemic tool for the design of collaborative systems (CoSys) whose aim is to expand the designers’ knowledge and awareness of ...
Clarissa Maria de A. Barbosa, Raquel Oliveira Prat...
Peer-to-peer file-sharing systems have hundreds of thousands of users sharing petabytes of data, however, their search functionality is limited. In general, query results contain...
The web-technology is going through major changes these years, both with respect to types of systems based on web-technology, organization of the development work, required approa...
Technologies can be used ? or appropriated ? in different ways by different users, but how do the use patterns evolve, and how can design facilitate such evolution? This paper app...