Towards a natural internet-based collaborative environment with support of object physical and social characteristics

International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 37-53

  Ma, Jianhua ^a   Huang, Runhe ^a   Nakatani, Ryouhei ^b  

^a HOSEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AIZU   (Japan)

Author keywords

Collaborative room; Java; Server client communications; Shared object

Indexed keywords

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; GROUPWARE; INTERNET; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

MULTIPLE USERS; SHARED APPLICATION SYSTEMS; VIRTUAL COLLABORATION ROOM;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

EID: 0035245119     PISSN: 02181940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218194001000402     Document Type: Article

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