The popular slogan ”write once, run anywhere” effectively renders the expressive capabilities of the Java programming framework for developing, deploying, and reusing target-i...
A major cost in executing queries in a distributed database system is the data transfer cost incurred in transferring relations (fragments) accessed by a query from different site...
Abstract-- This paper describes a framework for constructing a three-dimensional immersive environment that can be used for training physical activities. The system is designed to ...
This paper asks a new question: how can we control the collective behavior of self-organized multi-agent systems? We try to answer the question by proposing a new notion called `So...
Loops is a text-based computer mediated communication system aimed at small- to medium-sized corporate work groups. We begin by discussing the goals of the system and the rational...
Thomas Erickson, Wendy A. Kellogg, Mark Laff, Jere...