— Advanced communication technologies enable strangers to work together on the same tasks or projects in virtual environments. Understanding the formation of taskoriented groups ...
The use of Shared Virtual Environments is growing in areas such as multi-player video games, military and industrial training, and collaborative design and engineering. At the sam...
– The latency between machines on the Internet can dramatically affect users’ experience for many distributed applications. Particularly, in multiplayer online games, players s...
Consider a network vulnerable to viral infection. The system security software can guarantee safety only to a limited part of the network. Such limitations result from economy cos...
Marios Mavronicolas, Vicky G. Papadopoulou, Anna P...
In recent years, MMORPG has become popular. In order to improve scalability of game system, several P2P-based architectures have been proposed. However, in P2P-based gaming archit...