Electronic meeting control has been the focus of many research efforts; however, extensively adopted standards are still unavailable. In this paper, we present a generic model for electronic meeting control. Our model is based on the formal meeting protocol commonly known as the parliamentary procedure or Robert’s Rules of Order (RRO). Capturing the essential features of traditional RRO, we sug...

Meetings are an integral part of everyday life for most work-groups. However, due to travel, time, or other constraints, people are often not able to attend all the meetings they need to. Teleconferencing and recording of meetings can address this problem. We describe a system that provides these features, as well as a user study evaluation of the system. The system uses a variety of capture de...

We analyze a market in which sellers compete for heterogeneous buyers by posting mechanisms. A general meeting technology governs how buyers and sellers meet. We introduce a one-to-one transformation of this meeting technology that helps to clarify and extend many of the existing results in the literature, which has focused on two special cases: urn-ball and bilateral meetings. We show that the...

SINCE 1946 a meeting has been held monthly in the Royal Maternity Hospital, Belfast, during the months September to June. It has been attended by the staff of both maternity hospitals and by representatives from the Department of Pathology, the Ministry of Health, and the City Borough Healthi Department. At this meeting the monthly statistical reports for the Jubilee Maternity Hospital and the ...

416 mAbs Volume 4 issue 3 The Summer 2012 conference season provides ample opportunities to attend meetings that feature topics relevant to anti-body research and development (R&D). Meetings such as these serve critical infor-mational and educational functions and are key networking opportunities. Locations are spread throughout the world, reflecting the global nature of antibody R&D.

+ ve G) were countered with limited success by pressure suits, horizontal posture, etcUpward forces (i.e. ve G) were less well tolerated. Whereas the former caused first greying out due to loss of colour vision, then blacking out and final unconsciousnessi recovery usually took place on removal of the stress in good time. On the other hand* with negative G a red out occurred, leading to cerebra...

This paper discusses the implementation of an online course board, an attempt to conduct formal course meetings using simple web-based threaded bulletin board technologies. This technique seeks to address some of the problems of conventional meetings where individuals can dominate proceedings, most attendees waste much of the time being bored and there is a heavy investment of time and money fo...