Enforcing semantic integrity on untrusted clients in networked virtual environments

Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 179-184

  Jha, Somesh ^a   Katzenbeisser, Stefan ^b   Schallhart, Christian ^b   Veith, Helmut ^b   Chenney, Stephen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c Emergent Game Technology

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

COMPUTER GAMING INDUSTRY; LOGICAL RULES; SEMANTIC INTEGRITY;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 34548788559     PISSN: 10816011     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SP.2007.16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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