In this paper we consider how the concept of psychological distance can inform interventions that promote positive outcomes in transnational distributed teams. We focus on two primary characteristics of transnational distributed teams: physical distance between members, and social distance in the form of heterogeneity among members. We present a theoretical model describing how these characteri...

Since publication of the Atkins Commission report in 2003, the national scientific community has placed significant emphasis on developing cyberinfrastructure-enabled knowledge communities, which are designed to facilitate enhanced efficiency and collaboration in geographically distributed networks of researchers. This article suggests that the new cyberinfrastructure movement may not fully ben...

Distributed simulation has the potential to become widely applicable for geographically-dispersed manufacturing environments, as is the case with desktop manufacturing or rapidly deployable micro-assembly stations. The work presented here discusses in detail the theory of the distributed manufacturing simulation infrastructure based on the IEEE HLA standard and clarifies with practical examples...

Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks and grids are distributed computing models that enable decentralized collaboration by integrating computers into networks in which each can consume and offer services. P2P is a class of self-organizing systems or applications that takes advantage of distributed resources – storage, processing, information, and human presence – available at the Internet's edges. A gri...

DOME (Distributed Object-based Modeling Environment) is a software framework for product design system modeling where designers are distributed geographically and make use of different software tools. Designers develop their own local software components, and distributed object technology is used to integrate their services via the Internet to form an overall system model. Designers can then ex...

This study examined a collaborative tool intervention within a geographically-distributed engineering design team in a large automobile parts manufacturing company. The intervention consisted of baseline observation and data collection to determine user requirements, followed by supported introduction of collaborative tools that matched those requirements, and then additional data collection an...

The term “Grid” refers to distributed, high performance computing and data handling infrastructure that incorporates geographically and organizationally dispersed, heterogeneous resources that are persistent and supported. We describe a NASA project to build such a computing and data grid

Hepatitis Delta virus (HDV) is a degenerate RNA virus or virusoid and a satellite of Hepatitis B virus (HBV). Three distinct genotypes are described for HDV; genotype I is distributed worldwide but other genotypes appear to be more restricted geographically. In the present study, an RT-nested PCR method was set up to detect delta infection from serum samples. Moreover, the target amplified sequ...