This article presents a critique of conventional collaboration transparency systems, also
called “application-sharing” systems, which provide the real-time shared use of legacy …

Many existing Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) systems have two major
deficiencies. Firstly, they support the situation of face-to-face meetings poorly. Secondly …

This paper is the first part of a two-part paper that documents a detailed survey of the
research carried out on consistency and latency in distributed interactive applications (DIAs) …

Recent work in opening up distributed object systems to make them suitable for applications
needing quality of service control has had the side effect of increasing the complexity in …

As collaboration in virtual environments becomes more object-focused and closely coupled,
the frequency of conflicts in accessing shared objects can increase. In addition, two kinds of …

A dependable middleware should be able to adaptively share the distributed resources it
manages in order to meet diverse application requirements, even when the quality of service …

Predictive contract mechanisms such as dead reckoning are widely employed to support
scalable remote entity modeling in distributed interactive applications (DIAs). By employing …

The implementation of a virtual environment is challenging when the area to be covered is of
large scale with existing objects such as historical buildings, castles, city neighbors …

Replication is often used to provide users of distributed virtual environments with high-
performance interactions. Concurrency control is required to avoid inconsistent views …

Operational transformation (OT) is an optimistic concurrency control method that has been
well established in realtime group editors and has drawn significant research attention in the …