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PVLDB
2010
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13 years 5 months ago
Efficient Proximity Detection among Mobile Users via Self-Tuning Policies
Given a set of users, their friend relationships, and a distance threshold per friend pair, the proximity detection problem is to find each pair of friends such that the Euclidean...
Man Lung Yiu, Leong Hou U, Simonas Saltenis, Kosta...
MIDDLEWARE
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Kevlar: A Flexible Infrastructure for Wide-Area Collaborative Applications
Abstract. While Web Services ensure interoperability and extensibility for networked applications, they also complicate the deployment of highly collaborative systems, such as virt...
Qi Huang, Daniel A. Freedman, Ymir Vigfusson, Ken ...
IJAMC
2010
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13 years 9 months ago
Deadline-Driven Auctions for NPC host allocation in P2P MMOGs
: This paper presents the design, implementation and evaluation of Deadline-Driven Auctions (DDA), a novel task mapping infrastructure for heterogeneous distributed environments. D...
Lu Fan, Philip W. Trinder, Hamish Taylor
IJAMC
2010
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13 years 9 months ago
Design issues for Peer-to-Peer Massively Multiplayer Online Games
: Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) are increasing in both popularity and scale, and while classical Client/Server architectures convey some benefits, they suffer from s...
Lu Fan, Philip W. Trinder, Hamish Taylor
IJAMC
2010
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13 years 9 months ago
QuON: a quad-tree-based overlay protocol for distributed virtual worlds
—Massively Multiplayer Online Games and Virtual Worlds are among the most popular applications on the Internet. As player numbers increase, the limits of the currently dominant c...
Helge Backhaus, Stephan Krause
IJAMC
2008
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13 years 11 months ago
Clustering players for load balancing in virtual worlds
Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) have become increasingly popular in the last years. So far the distribution of load, caused by the players in these games, is not distrib...
Simon Rieche, Klaus Wehrle, Marc Fouquet, Heiko Ni...
IJAMC
2008
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Scalable reputation management with trustworthy user selection for P2P MMOGs
: Recent research on Peer-to-Peer Massively Multiplayer Online Games (P2P MMOGs) has tried to find more scalable and affordable solutions to build virtual environments via the reso...
Guan-Yu Huang, Shun-Yun Hu, Jehn-Ruey Jiang
CN
2008
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13 years 11 months ago
An efficient and secure event signature (EASES) protocol for peer-to-peer massively multiplayer online games
In recent years, massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) have become very popular by providing more entertainment and sociability than single-player games. In order to prevent c...
Mo-Che Chan, Shun-Yun Hu, Jehn-Ruey Jiang
MM
2010
ACM
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13 years 11 months ago
Hybrid load balancing for online games
As massively multiplayer online games are becoming very popular, how to support a large number of concurrent users while maintaining the game performance has become an important r...
Rynson W. H. Lau
IE
2007
14 years 13 days ago
My guild, my people: role of guilds in massively multiplayer online games
Massively Multiplayer Online Games continue to grow and attract more users. The social aspect of MMOs differentiates them from single person games, increase user loyalty and often...
Yusuf Pisan