An innovative design approach to build Virtual Environment systems

Proceedings of the Workshop on Virtual Environments, EGVE'03

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 143-151

  Oliveira, M ^a   Crowcroft, J ^b   Slater, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Component frameworks; Java; Online games; System design; Virtual Environments; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE DYNAMICS; COMPLEX PROBLEMS; COMPONENT FRAMEWORK; DEVELOPMENT TRENDS; EVENT MODEL; EXISTING SYSTEMS; INCREMENTAL INNOVATION; INNOVATIVE DESIGN; JAVA; MAJOR ELEMENTS; MONOLITHIC ARCHITECTURE; NAMESPACES; NON-TRIVIAL; NOVEL CONCEPT; ON-LINE GAMES; RUN TIME RECONFIGURATION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING PRINCIPLES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; DESIGN; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 84869010212     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/769953-769970     Document Type: Conference Paper

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