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Mitchell, Erik – Journal of Web Librarianship, 2011
In mid-April, Amazon EC2 services had a small problem. Apparently, a large swath of its cloud computing environment had such substantial trouble that a number of customers had server issues. A number of high-profile sites, including Reddit, Evite, and Foursquare, went down when Amazon experienced issues in their US East 1a region (Justinb 2011).…
Descriptors: Human Factors Engineering, Computer System Design, Online Systems, Gateway Systems
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Guimaraes, E. G.; Cardozo, E.; Moraes, D. H.; Coelho, P. R. – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2011
The design and implementation of remote laboratories present different levels of complexity according to the nature of the equipments operated by the remote laboratory, the requirements imposed on the accessing computers, the network linking the user to the laboratory, and the type of experiments the laboratory supports. This paper addresses the…
Descriptors: Laboratories, Client Server Architecture, Program Design, Program Implementation
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Spaeth, Sebastian; Haefliger, Stefan; von Krogh, Georg; Renzl, Birgit – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2008
Introduction: Virtual communities play an important role in innovation. The paper focuses on the particular form of collective action in virtual communities underlying as Open Source software development projects. Method: Building on resource mobilization theory and private-collective innovation, we propose a theory of collective action in…
Descriptors: Innovation, Computer Software, Educational Technology, Computer System Design