Software development teams are often geographically distributed from their customers and
end users. This creates significant communication and coordination challenges that impact …

With the growth of usage of List Servers and the World Wide Web the Internet has become a
major resource for the acquisition of knowledge, and it has given new prominence to human …

As people engage in ordinary activities, they maintain awareness of others around them,
which amounts to an understanding regarding what others do, where they are, or what they …

Abstract “In most business organizations today, when groups of executives meet, they gather
in a room that is little different from the one in which their predecessors met a hundred or …

Until recently, the limitations of display and interface technologies have restricted the
potential for human interaction and collaboration with computers. For example, desktop …

Collaborative web exploration, in which learners work together to explore the World Wide
Web, has become a key learning activity in education contexts. Learners can use a shared …

Traditionally, collaborative systems have been difficult to conceive, design and implement.
Although several requirements involved in these products are recurrent, some become …

Background: Working together efficiently and effectively presents a significant challenge in
large-scale, complex, interdisciplinary research projects. Collaboratories are a nascent …

Economic, organizational, and societal pressures, as well as the desire to reach shared
goals more efficiently and effectively, are driving an increase in collaborative research …

For handwritten character recognition, a new elastic image matching (EM) technique based
on a class-dependent deformation model is proposed. In the deformation model, any …