Title :
Minitasking - a visual Gnutella client
Author :
Pascual, Anne ; Hauer, Marcus
Author_Institution :
Office for Computational Design, Berlin, Germany
Abstract :
Minitasking is a graphical browser for surfing the Gnutella network. Relying on the peer-to-peer standard Gnutella, this application provides a visual manifestation of the properties of dynamic and temporarily created networks and introduces transparency to the exchange of data and network instability.
Keywords :
data visualisation; distributed processing; electronic data interchange; graphical user interfaces; online front-ends; protocols; data exchange transparency; dynamic network visual manifestation; graphical browser; minitasking; network instability; peer-to-peer standard Gnutella network; temporarily created network visual manifestation; Peer to peer computing;
Conference_Titel :
Information Visualization, 2003. IV 2003. Proceedings. Seventh International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1988-1
DOI :
10.1109/IV.2003.1217966
