This paper reports the results of a case study where the analytic hierarchy process (AHP)
technique was employed to support the selection of a multi-media authorizing system (MAS) …

The National Science Foundation funded the first Coordination Theory and Collaboration
Technology initiative to look at systems that support collaborations in business and …

Inspection is widely believed to be the most cost-effective method for detecting defects in
documents produced during the software development lifecycle. However, it is by its very …

The architecture of a collaborative application is characterized by the modules, layers,
replicas, threads, and processes into which the application is decomposed; the awareness …

The Collaborative Software Inspection (CSI) tool, which provides a distributed, structured
environment for performing inspections on all software-development products, including …

Software inspection is universally accepted as an effective defect finding technique. Recent
research in inspection has investigated the development of computer support, aimed at …

We have developed a new model for coupling the user interfaces of a multiuser program. It
is based on an interaction model and a user interface framework that allow users and …

Multimedia Database Management Systems presents the issues and the techniques used in
building multimedia database management systems. Chapter 1 provides an overview of …

Collaborative systems include both general infrastructures and specific applications for
supporting collaboration. Because of the relative newness and complexity of these systems …

Many software engineering tasks have a synchronous component that requires the
participants to assemble together at the same time and place. This approach is expensive in …