SIGMOD
2011
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
2011
ACM
Advances in hardware have enabled many long-running applications to execute entirely in main memory. As a result, these applications have increasingly turned to database technique...
IJAMC
2010
13 years 10 months ago
2010
—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...
DIGRA
2005
Springer
2005
Springer
A Sociotechnical Conjecture about the Context and Development of Multiplayer Online Game Experiences
14 years 5 months ago
The advent of multiplayer online games brings new actors into the development scene and redefines traditional roles and interactions. Anchored on studies of the role of context in...
NETGAMES
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2005
ACM
Ranking is necessary for multiplayer online games to provide players with self-complacence and reference for choosing game counterparts. Most existing ranking solutions are tightl...
NETGAMES
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2005
ACM
In this paper, we advocate the problem of reusing Multiplayer Online Game (MOG) in Client-Server (C/S) architecture. The problem is that MOG services cannot continue to be provide...
ICPPW
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2006
IEEE
In recent years, large scale distributed virtual environments have become a major trend in distributed applications, mainly due to the enormous popularity of multiplayer online ga...
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
15 years 1 days ago
2009
ACM
This tutorial presents an overview of the data management issues faced by computer games today. While many games do not use databases directly, they still have to process large am...
CHI
2006
ACM
15 years 7 days ago
2006
ACM
Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) routinely attract millions of players but little empirical data is available to assess their players' social experiences. In this p...
CHI
2007
ACM
15 years 7 days ago
2007
ACM
Massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) can be fascinating laboratories to observe group dynamics online. In particular, players must form persistent associations or "guil...