In recent years, large scale distributed virtual environments (DVEs) have become a major trend in distributed applications, mainly due to the enormous popularity of multiplayer onl...
In this paper we report on our work to enable “laid-back” social interactions using television as a primary interaction medium and mobile devices that participate as a seconda...
Kris Luyten, Kristof Thys, Steven Huypens, Karin C...
Abstract— Many IP multicast-based applications, such as multimedia conferencing, multiplayer games, require controlling the group memberships of senders and receivers. One common...
Persistent online environments, such as multi-player games, exhibit a complex social organisation. These environments often feature large social groupings and elaborate cooperativ...
M2MC is a new distributed computing middleware designed to support collaborative applications running on devices connected by broadcast networks. Examples of such networks are wire...