Active involvement of end users in the development of interactive systems is both highly recommended and highly challenging. This is particularly true in settings where the require...
Abstract. This paper discusses concurrency control in distributed geographical database systems. A geographic data server providing transactional services must be designed to handl...
GRADD is a group decision support systems targeted at asynchronous and distributed meetings. The distinctive features of GRADD are the combination of a rationalemodel for discussi...
Abstract We describe an event-based, publishand-subscribe system based on using "smart subscriptions" to recognize weakly structured events. We present a hierarchy of sub...
— This work considers the problem of transmitting multiple compressible sources over a network with minimum cost. The problem is complicated by the fact that the description of t...