The role of semantics in games and simulations

Computers in Entertainment

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Tutenel, Tim ^a,c   Bidarra, Rafael ^a,c   Smelik, Ruben M ^b   De Kraker, Klaas Jan D ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

^c Delft University of Technology ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Constraint solving; Games and simulations; Modeling; Semantics; Virtual environments

Indexed keywords

CONSISTENCY MAINTENANCE; CONSTRAINT SOLVING; CROSS-DISCIPLINARY; CURRENT PRACTICES; DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT; DESIGN COSTS; GAME DESIGN; GAMES AND SIMULATION; GAMES AND SIMULATIONS; GENERATION TECHNIQUES; GRAPHICS HARDWARE; MODELING; OBJECT MODEL; RESEARCH EFFORTS; SEAMLESS INTEGRATION; SEMANTIC DATA; SEMANTIC INFORMATION; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

DESIGN; GAME THEORY; SEMANTICS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

MAINTENANCE OF WAY;

EID: 67549098235     PISSN: 15443574     EISSN: 15443981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1461999.1462009     Document Type: Article

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