Multi-user virtual environment (MUVE) systems integrate the technologies of virtual reality and distributed system to allow users to interact with each other in a realistic virtua...
—During the last decades, the Internet has steadily developed into a mass medium. The target group radically changed compared to, e.g., the 90s. Because virtually everyone has ac...
Harald Widiger, Stephan Kubisch, Peter Danielis, J...
—This paper proposes a framework for a virtual classroom application based on a Virtual Collaboration System (VCS), which is being developed under the VISNET II Network of Excell...
Maria Teresa Andrade, Hemantha Kodikara Arachchi, ...
One of the outcomes of Moore's Law - according to which the exponential growth of technical advances in computer science is pushing more and more of our computers into obsole...
Thimoty Barbieri, Franca Garzotto, Giovanni Beltra...
In this chapter, we discuss a widely used fault-tolerant data replication model called virtual synchrony. The model responds to two kinds of needs. First, there is the practical qu...