Communication structure is a way of improving the effectiveness of group communications by imposing rules or procedures of communications. Delphi is a communication structure which has been widely used to collect ideas and opinions from temporarily and geographically dispersed experts. A new approach in Delphi implementation using asynchronous Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) is developed....

This paper investigated the effects of relationship types (intracultural versus intercultural conditions) on relational development in computer-mediated communications (CMC) and face-to-face settings by controlling for the effect of prejudice and ethnocentrism. A total of 140 participants were involved in the experiment, and they were randomly assigned to the face-to-face, synchronous and async...

A wide variety of complex systems generate asynchronous events, including nuclear power plants, computer networks, governments, relational database systems and operating systems. We present Multi-Event Dependency Detection (medd), a novel algorithm for acquiring event correlation rules from historical logs of asynchronous events. Given a new stream of events generated in real time, the rules en...

Dezhi Wu is Assistant Professor of Information Systems in the Department of Computer Science & Information Systems, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, UT, U.S.A. She received her Ph.D. in Information Systems from the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Her current research interests include Electronic Time Management/ Calendar Systems, Asynchronous Learning Networks, Human-Computer Interacti...

The popularity of online education has prompted computer-assisted language learning (CALL) teachers to attend teacher professional development (OTPD) courses. Online necessitated a deeper look into delivery in Hence, an exploratory qualitative case study was conducted investigate how synchronous, asynchronous, or the blend both, called bichronous learning, could develop teachers’ CALL pedagogic...

Recently, there has been a resurgence of interest in asynchronous design techniques. The research activity in this area has pointed to the need for suitable techniques for modelling and simulating asynchronous systems. The occam programming language allows the rapid development of parallel simulation models of asynchronous systems but its distributed nature introduces time modelling problems. T...

To draw valid inference about an indirect effect in a mediation model, there must be no omitted confounders. No omitted confounders means that there are no common causes of hypothesized causal relationships. When the no-omitted-confounder assumption is violated, inference about indirect effects can be severely biased and the results potentially misleading. Despite the increasing attention to ad...

Real-time digital systems and asynchronous computer systems have an inherent risk of occasional failures due to metastability in various components used to control data-transfers. This possibility has been known for a long time, although it is sometimes forgotten or overlooked. There is renewed interest in asynchronous computer systems because of the prospects they offer for lower power operati...

ARCHITECTURES: THE PROGRAM DRIVEN APPROACH G. Theodoropoulos, J. V. Woods Department of Computer Science University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K. ABSTRACT Recently, there has been a resurgence of interest in asynchronous design techniques due to the potential of asynchronous logic for higher performance and lower power consumption. The research activity in this area has po...