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ICDE
2009
IEEE
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15 years 5 months ago
Scalability for Virtual Worlds
— Networked virtual environments (net-VEs) are the next wave of digital entertainment, with Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOs) a very popular instance. Current MMO archite...
Nitin Gupta 0003, Alan J. Demers, Johannes Gehrke,...
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
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15 years 10 months ago
Database research in computer games
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...
Alan J. Demers, Johannes Gehrke, Christoph Koch, B...
CSE
2009
IEEE
15 years 5 months ago
Mining for Gold Farmers: Automatic Detection of Deviant Players in MMOGs
Abstract—Gold farming refers to the illicit practice of gathering and selling virtual goods in online games for real money. Although around one million gold farmers engage in gol...
Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad, Brian Keegan, Jaideep Sr...
DRM
2006
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Consumers, fans, and control: what the games industry can teach Hollywood about DRM
Through legislation and technology the film industry has been seeking to fully control usage of the bits it creates; their model is "restrictive" digital-rights manageme...
Susan Landau, Renée Stratulate, Doug Twille...
IJAMC
2010
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14 years 8 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