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DIGRA
2005
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Fictive affinities in Final Fantasy XI: complicit and critical play in fantastic nations.
Like many massively-multiplayer role-playing games, Final Fantasy XI is a persistent world with a heroic fantasy setting. This paper discusses fictive player identities, and descr...
William Huber
NOSSDAV
1991
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Multimedia Synchronization and UNIX
One of the most important emerging developments for improving the user/computer interface has been the addition of multimedia facilities to high-performance workstations. Although...
Dick C. A. Bulterman, Robert van Liere
ATAL
2010
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Aggregation-mediated collective perception and action in a group of miniature robots
We introduce a novel case study in which a group of miniaturized robots screen an environment for undesirable agents, and destroy them. Because miniaturized robots are usually end...
Grégory Mermoud, Loïc Matthey, William...
NN
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Multilayer in-place learning networks for modeling functional layers in the laminar cortex
Currently, there is a lack of general-purpose in-place learning networks that model feature layers in the cortex. By "general-purpose" we mean a general yet adaptive hig...
Juyang Weng, Tianyu Luwang, Hong Lu, Xiangyang Xue
SENSYS
2010
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Meeting ecologists' requirements with adaptive data acquisition
Ecologists instrument ecosystems to collect time series representing the evolution in time and space of relevant abiotic and biotic factors. Sensor networks promise to improve on ...
Marcus Chang, Philippe Bonnet