This paper presents a framework for asynchronous awareness. Awareness tools are potentially powerful for the support of long-term team collaboration processes. In this paper we outline the particularities of long-term awareness and introduce stories as a means to present awareness information. We show different approaches to present awareness stories and describe the results of our laboratory u...

We study perfect information games with an infinite horizon played by an arbitrary number of players. This class of games includes infinitely repeated perfect information games, repeated games with asynchronous moves, games with long and short run players, games with overlapping generations of players, and canonical non-cooperative models of bargaining. We consider two restrictions on equilibri...

When facilitating asynchronous discussion forums, should online instructors be encouraged to take a prominent ‘sage on the stage’ role, a more constructivist ‘guide on the side’ role, or an ultra low profile as ‘the ghost in the wings’? There is no shortage of anecdotal advice on how to conduct discussion forums in online education, but there appears to be very little research available so far ...

In the framework of the multidisciplinary DocPatient project (2002/2005), we studied the hospital electronic medical record in collaboration with a pilot site (neonatal medicine and generalpurpose paediatric reanimation directed by Doctor G. Krim of the Hospital of Amiens) and an industrial partner (the company Uni-medicine). We observed the practices of the health care professionals with the p...

Protocol Cycle accurate Model

The widespread participation of international and new migrant Chinese students in Western universities has raised fresh issues regarding how these students adapt to new learning cultures where critical thinking and interaction are emphasized and online learning is integral to many courses. This paper reports research in a New Zealand university about the ways in which Chinese students operated ...

This paper proposes a novel Digital Down Converter (DDC) architecture for bit serial data, that can be used in digital receivers. The major advantage of proposed DDC is that the data is bit serial which results in reduced area and better timings. The proposed architecture is best suited for bit serial communication system with bit serial Analog to Digital Converter (ADC).

In this paper, we perform an analysis on the min-max decoding algorithm for nonbinary LDPC (lowdensity parity-check) codes and propose serial min-max decoding algorithm. After that, combining with the weighted processing of the variable node message, we propose serial min-max decoding algorithm based on variable weighting for nonbinary LDPC codes. In the end, we perform a detailed analysis on t...