This paper proposes to model and represent an object’s digital persona by means of a conceptual model that uses fragments of schemata that are termed data-DNA. The object may be...
Building on the work of games theorists and virtual world designers, this paper proposes a framework for understanding the real-virtual dichotomy in terms of a series of five fram...
Though the service of shared virtual worlds is an active area of research, little effort has been made to optimize such systems for urban world spaces. Tracking the motion, action...
—In a distributed virtual environment interest management schemes attempt to ensure virtual world objects exchange messages only if they are interacting. This provides an opportu...
The World Wide Web is a medium for publishing data used by collaborating groups and communities of shared interest. This paper proposes mechanisms to support the accuracy and auth...