The brave new world of multiplayer online games: Synchronization issues with smart solutions

Proceedings - 11th IEEE Symposium on Object/Component/Service-Oriented Real-Time Distributed Computing, ISORC 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 587-592

  Roccetti, Marco ^a   Ferretti, Stefano ^a   Palazzi, Claudio E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; GAME THEORY;

ALL OVER THE WORLD; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATIONS; FEASIBLE SOLUTIONS; GAME FEATURES; MULTI-PLAYER ONLINE GAMES; REAL-TIME DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; SMART SOLUTIONS;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 49649113149     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISORC.2008.17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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