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CONEXT
2008
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Is there life in Second Life?
Abstract: Social virtual worlds such as Second Life are digital representations of the real world where human-controlled avatars evolve and interact through social activities. Unde...
Matteo Varvello, Fabio Picconi, Christophe Diot, E...
ACMACE
2009
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Getting acquainted in Second Life: human agent interactions in virtual environments
The paper investigates human agent interactions in virtual environments like Second Life. As interactions in such environments are inherently social, the agent should be able to p...
Christian Pallay, Matthias Rehm, Ekaterina Kurdyuk...
BMCBI
2010
92views more  BMCBI 2010»
13 years 4 months ago
YODA: Software to facilitate high-throughput analysis of chronological life span, growth rate, and survival in budding yeast
Background: The budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is one of the most widely studied model organisms in aging-related science. Although several genetic modifiers of yeast long...
Brady Olsen, Christopher J. Murakami, Matt Kaeberl...
HICSS
2009
IEEE
104views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2009»
13 years 11 months ago
Second Life as a Medium for Lecturing in College Courses
Second Life is an online virtual world that is gaining popularity in academic institutions as an alternative means for collaborative and distance education. However, the number of...
Daniel C. Cliburn, Jeffrey L. Gross
INFOCOM
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
P2P Second Life: Experimental Validation Using Kad
: Applications such as Second Life require massive deployment of servers worldwide to support a large number of users. We investigate experimentally how Peer-to-Peer (P2P) communic...
Matteo Varvello, C. Diout, Ernst W. Biersack