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Showing 1 to 20 of 156 for “"group communication"”.
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SimPhony : voice group communication
Communication is vital in any workplace. However, as workers become less tied to their desktops and computers, the need to provide them with a flexible, easy to use, mobile method of communication becomes more necessary. This is particularly true in "non-traditional" workplaces like factories or …
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Group communication in bus-based computer networks
… there has been an increase in the number of group-based applications composed of cooperative processing entities. Examples include multimedia teleconferencing, distributed databases, distributed operating system services, cooperating processes in automated control, and parallel processing. …
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Application of media channels to large-scale group communication
… or poor reliability, their use for real-time communications for human interaction was considered infeasible on any large scale, since audio and video data consumed vast amounts of memory and processing capacity. However, recent and forthcoming enhancements to network quality, along with …
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Peer-to-Peer Group Communication for City-Scale Mesh Networks
The Internet has become extremely centralized. The benefits of centralization have thus far outweighed the drawbacks, but users today are much more concerned about privacy, and reachability is increasingly threatened by natural disasters, political repression, cyberattacks, and human error. …
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Modeling Group Communication in a Complex System for Achieving Group Goals
This thesis investigates the effect of communication as a function of time on a multi-agent simulation based on a military distillation utilizing reinforcement learning for a group of agents. The original contribution to knowledge is a new model of cooperative learning developed as an enhanced …
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Freebrain : a distributed and scalable interest-based instant group communication system
Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2002.
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Group communication as a base for a load-balancing replicated data service
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1998.
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A one-round algorithm for virtually synchronous group communication in wide area networks
Group communication services, and especially those that implement Virtual Synchrony semantics, are powerful middleware systems that facilitate the development of fault-tolerant distributed applications. In this thesis, we present a high quality, theoretical design of a group communication service …
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The effect of voice input on information exchange in computer supported asynchronous group communication
Computer support for group communication in the business environment is examined. Study of group activities in videotaped business meetings identified information exchange as the most frequent communication task. Existing computer supported cooperative work (CSCW) systems for group communication …
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A Sociotechnical Approach to the Study of Semiautonomous Work group Communication in Technical Organizations
<p>The sociotechnical aspects of group communication in semiautonomous technical work teams were investigated to understand how team members define "effective" group communication and what impact technical tools have on the group communication process. A team of workers with various technical …
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Large lectures are hard: an exploration in meaningful social visualizations for large group communication
… fostering crowd engagement, backchannel communication, and various classroom communication technologies. Next, work is reviewed regarding a system for real-time classroom interaction, the Fragmented Social Mirror (FSM), as well as the results that were seen with the FSM in a pilot study. …
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Securing group communication in dynamic, disadvantaged networks : implementation of an elliptic-curve pairing-based cryptography library
This thesis considers the problem of securing communication among dynamic groups of participants without relying on an online group keying service. As a solution, we offer the design and implementation of the Public Key Group Encryption (PKGE) service. It is a cryptography library, written in C, …
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The Use of Fantasy Theme Analysis to Describe the Group Communication and Creative Problem-Solving Skills of University-Level Students as They Prepare for Destination Imagination Global Finals Competition
… in the workplace, industry is turning to group-work and collaboration. Successful teams are in demand because they not only meet the efficiency needs, but also provide the kind of bonding that creates convergence in the members. The chemistry or recipe for this kind of success is difficult …
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Agreement and Group Attraction in Face-to-Face and Computer-Mediated Group Discussions
Topics within small-group communication have been explored in many contexts, such as work group, organizational meeting, or online network. This area of discipline is considered crucial because this type of communication assimilates interpersonal relations within a social setting. Two elements that …
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Group formation and communication in mobile wi-fi networks
… campuses. In addition, students often work as a group to perform collaborative tasks on campus. Consequently, there is a demand for group communication applications in mobile devices and a need to provide middleware support for such group communication over mobile wireless networks. This paper …
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Building communities through communication: Understanding community development success and failure using a narrative approach
… uses narrative analysis to investigate public communication efforts of community development groups to provide a richer understanding of the indicators of group success or failure in this context. The subjects are participants of the Indiana HomeTown Competitiveness program, an initiative that …
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Virtual teams combining mobile devices with web-based communication on group decision making
… environment to a virtual team environment using communication technology during the last decade. More and more workers use asynchronous tools (including email, discussion groups, information sharing tools, and group calendaring systems), and synchronous tools, such as instant messaging and …
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Reliable Multicast in Mobile Ad Hoc Wireless Networks
… wireless ad hoc network (MANET) consists of a group of mobile nodes communicating wirelessly with no fixed infrastructure. Each node acts as source or receiver, and all play a role in path discovery and packet routing. MANETs are growing in popularity due to multiple usage models, ease of …
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