Supporting continuous consistency in multiplayer online games

ACM Multimedia 2004 - proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on Multimedia

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 388-391

  Li, Frederick W B ^a   Li, Lewis W F ^b   Lau, Rynson W H ^b  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Collaborative gaming; Consistency control; Distributed synchronization; Distributed virtual environments

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; DECISION MAKING; ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SERVERS; SYNCHRONIZATION;

COLLABORATIVE GAMING; CONSISTENCY CONTROL; DISTRIBUTED SYNCHRONIZATION; DISTRIBUTED VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 13444271682     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1027527.1027619     Document Type: Conference Paper

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