Delayed conferencing is a way to conduct people-to-people communication based on multimedia mail systems. An active multimedia system for delayed conferencing uses the concept of active media by enclosing active knowledge in messages. Messages having active knowledge will automatically react to certain events to perform operations for generating a timely response and improving operational effic...

The purpose of this study is two-fold. First, it is to invert an insurance industry index(s) from a linearly independent factor structure derived from the application of the Ross (1976) arbitrage-pricing model (APT) on a sample of insurance industry returns. The second objective is to identify the effect this index has on the performance of the Sharpe multi-index model in the formation of the m...

The purpose of this study is to provide conceptual order and a tool for the use of computermediated communication (CMC) and computer conferencing in supporting an educational experience. Central to the study introduced here is a model of community inquiry that constitutes three elements essential to an educational transactionÐcognitive presence, social presence, and teaching presence. Indicator...

Video conference is becoming so popular in today world. People have to go for Distance places for attending meetings but this problem is solved by the videoconferencing. By this one person can communicate with other person using their webcam while remain in the one location. He needs not to go distant place to attend the meetings. It save time as well as money .This paper is for increasing the ...

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We present the challenging project VIRTUE, which will supersede current video conferencing systems. The essential features of this virtual video conferencing system, aiming at a convincing impression of immersive telepresence, are presented. To demonstrate what telepresence in video conferencing means the main properties of such a system are described together with the approaches to achieve the...

In this paper, we study the new opportunities offered by the interactive use of advanced multicriteria software in decision conferencing. We analyze and make observations on this approach in two one-day decision conferences on the planning of later phase countermeasures in off-site nuclear emergency management. The participants' individual use of the software in the preference elicitation phase...

This chapter reviews contemporary research on virtual collaboration. In particular, we focus on synchronous communication and collaboration processes in virtual conferencing environments. In a virtual conference, interactants are geographically distant but their avatars (virtual representations) appear in the same virtual conference room. Two types of virtual collaboration are examined. First, ...