Abstract

In this paper we present a virtual mail (v-mail) system. The prototype system is developed to realize e- cient \handing-o" of work between participants that are separated by great distances and/or time zones. 1. Introduction Businessmen, researchers, and artists conduct international collaborations. They often discuss over phones without visiting their colleagues because traveling is both expensive and time consuming. There are may researches on supporting synchronous distributed collaborations [8, 2, 4]. However, when participants are in dierent time-zones, asynchronous collaboration is very attractive. In asynchronous collaboration, the most eective computer-based collaboration tool today is still e-mail. Despite this, there are few applications which support asynchronous collaboration in virtual environments [4, 8]. Asynchronous collaboration is the most attractive and dicult form of collaboration. It is attractive because this mode reduces traveling cost and frees people from...

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