Database research opportunities in computer games

SIGMOD Record

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 7-13

  White, Walker ^a   Koch, Christoph ^a   Gupta, Nitin ^a   Gehrke, Johannes ^a   Demers, Alan ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATA STRUCTURES;

COMPUTER GAMES; DATABASE RESEARCH; DATABASE TECHNOLOGY;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 35748970189     PISSN: 01635808     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1324185.1324186     Document Type: Conference Paper

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