Comparing interest management algorithms for massively multiplayer games

Proceedings of 5th ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Network and System Support for Games, NetGames '06

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Boulanger, Jean Sébastien ^a   Kienzle, Jörg ^a   Verbrugge, Clark ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Computer games; Distributed games; Interest management

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GAME; INTEREST MANAGEMENTS; LOW COSTS; MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER GAMES; PLAYER ACTION; VIABLE SOLUTIONS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COST REDUCTION; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 77953103346     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1230040.1230069     Document Type: Conference Paper

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