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...
Tuan Cao, Marcos Antonio Vaz Salles, Benjamin Sowe...
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...
Large-scale multiplayer online games require considerable investment in hosting infrastructures. However, the difficulty of predicting the success of a new title makes investing ...
Some multiplayer, on-line games rely on the collaboration of all participating players. If a player’s gamble is aborted, the rest of players cannot continue playing. This behavi...
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. ...