Abstract. In recent years, distributed virtual environments (DVEs) have become a major trend in distributed applications, mainly due to the enormous popularity of multiplayer online games in the entertainment industry. Although the workload generated by avatars in a DVE system has already been

Multiplayer Online Games? Imagine an entire 3D world online, complete with forests, cities, and seas. Now imagine it populated with

Multiplayer online games are engineered to be highly engaging. Their success is reflected in the nearly 20 million participants, including roughly 5 million adolescents and children, who often play as much as 20 hours per week. A central question for this paper is whether players are deeply engaged

CAPTCHA challenges for massively multiplayer online games: Mini-

The most important asset of a Massively Multiplayer Online Game is its world state, as it represents the combined efforts and progress of all its participants. Thus, it is extremely important that this state is not lost in case of server failures. Survival of the world state is typically achieved

The purpose of this master thesis has been to investigate the architecture of massive multiplayer online games, MMOGs. As broadband is spreading around the world as well as powerful PCs are available, more computer graphics can be applied in MMOGs. The users of today want to see more graphics, i

. Protein structure prediction is one such problem: locating the biologically relevant native conformation of a protein is a formidable computational challenge given the very large size of the search space. Here we describe Foldit, a multiplayer online game that engages non-scientists in solving hard

In this paper, we discuss an approach for identification of player types in massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs). MMOGs provide fast growing online communities (Jarett et al. 2003). Managing a large-scale community im-plies many challenges, such as identification of player types, social

Abstract: This work presents a development of robotics team of hockey. This team is controlled in real time through the Internet. We will approach different kind of problems like the delay of robot response as well as the synchronization of all the information to be sent. This paper describes the physical structure and electronic system of the robots as well as the implemented algorithm.

In this study, the authors propose to discuss scalability challenges posed by Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG) scenarios, while outlining issues specific to the context of online interactive experiences and game genres. These scalability issues concern: game simulation, content distribution