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...
The rapid adoption of XML as the standard for data representation and exchange foreshadows a massive increase in the amounts of XML data collected, maintained, and queried over th...
Neoklis Polyzotis, Minos N. Garofalakis, Yannis E....
All software today is written using libraries, toolkits, frameworks and other application programming interfaces (APIs). We performed a user study of the online documentation a lar...
Sae Young Jeong, Yingyu Xie, Jack Beaton, Brad A. ...
Massive multiplayer online games (MMOGs) are today the driving factor for the development of distributed interactive applications, and they are increasing in size and complexity. ...
In this essay, I examine differences between individual and social play and, in particular, the differences between individual and social play within digital media forms designed ...