By addressing both the theoretical and practical issues of a geographically distributed application domain, we propose a way to construct a processing system using the computational aspects of a brain/mind system. The Alchemy distributed processing environment has been developed to support the geographical distribution of a set of intelligent applications running over the Internet. We focus her...

With increasing globalization and the proliferation of communication technologies, more people are working in cross-functional, geographically distributed teams. Although trust is clearly an important ingredient in these collaborations, little is known about the challenges this new work and social environment creates for the development of trust. Different disciplinary perspectives, different r...

Design is very often a collaborative activity, involving the co-operative work of experts from multiple disciplines. Moreover, design activities do frequently require the gathering of teams that are geographically spread. In the coincidental case of design teams being formed by experts from different disciplines geographically distributed across the globe, it is of utmost interest to conceive a...

There is an increasing interest in the relationship between area-based disadvantage and obesity but the extent to which the poverty-obesity relationship remains constant across geographical areas remains unclear. We examined geographical variations in the relationship between poverty and obesity in Taiwan using geographically weighted regression (GWR). A representative sample of 27,293 Taiwanes...

Hybrid simulation provides a versatile, realistic and cost-effective method for simulating dynamic response experimentally. Although hybrid simulation is undergoing widespread development worldwide, each site generally follows a different approach to implementation, which impedes researchers from effectively collaborating. It is especially difficult to perform important geographically distribut...