Grid computing is concerned with the sharing and coordinated use of diverse resources in distributed "virtual organizations.” The dynamic and multi-institutional nature of ...
Von Welch, Frank Siebenlist, Ian T. Foster, John B...
A force display system is a kind of these robot systems, which share pepole with the space while they are working, and which directly touch and display force-sences to their users...
Sensor networks have recently gained popularity for a wide spectrum of applications. When performing monitoring tasks in hostile environments, security requirements become critical...
It is now common to encounter communities engaged in the collaborative analysis and transformation of large quantities of data over extended time periods. We argue that these comm...
The need for sharing is well known in a large number of distributed collaborative applications. These applications are difficult to develop for wide area (possibly mobile) networ...