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In this extended abstract we present the UltraGrid system, the current state of the art in high definition conferencing. UltraGrid was the first system to support gigabit rate high definition interactive video conferencing on commodity systems and networks. We review the design and implementation of UltraGrid, discuss experimental results and deployment, and conclude with our vision of the futu...

This paper studies the modelling of large diversified portfolios in a financial market with jump-diffusion risks. The portfolios considered include three categories: equal money-weighted portfolios, risk minimizing portfolios, and market indices. Reduced-form dynamics driven jointly by one Brownian Motion and one Poisson process are derived for the asymptotics of such portfolios. We prove that ...

This article identifies, and provides perspective on, trends and developments in decision analysis applications, based primarily on an exhaustive survey of decision analysis applications published from 1990 through 2001 in major English language operations research and closely related journals. It serves as a guide to those interested in recent applications in specific areas or in applications ...

This research reports on a study that investigated the effect of Decision Conferencing (a Group Decision Support System or GDSS) on group conflict and conflict management in the Singapore context. 20 groups, involving 77 undergraduates, participated in this laboratory experiment. Groups attended a single decision-making session where they were required to achieve a consensus decision on the two...

Multimedia conferencing is increasingly becoming a very important and popular application over Internet. Due to the complexity of asynchronous communications and handle large and dynamically concurrent processes for multimedia conferencing, which confront relevant challenge to achieve sufficient correctness guarantees, and supporting the effective verification methods for multimedia conferencin...

While portfolios have seen an unprecedented surge in popularity, they have also become the subject of controversy: learners often perceive little gain from writing reflections as part of their portfolios; scholars question the ethics of such obligatory reflection; and students, residents, teachers and scholars alike condemn the bureaucracy surrounding portfolio implementation in competency-base...