On demand platform for online games

IBM Systems Journal

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 7-19

  Shaikh, Anees ^a   Sahu, Sambit ^a   Rosu, Marcel Catalin ^a   Shea, Michael ^a   Saha, Debanjan ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SERVERS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

DEMAND COMPUTING MODELS; ONLINE GAMES; PROTOTYPE IMPLEMENTATION; SERVICE PLATFORM; SHARING RESOURCES;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 33646563142     PISSN: 00188670     EISSN: 00188670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1147/sj.451.0007     Document Type: Article

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