A dichotomy exists in the engineering design process between 1) product teams organized
to engineer products collaboratively, and 2) the single-user architectures inherent in …

Lack of scalability is a key issue for virtual-environment technology, and more generally for
any large-scale online experience because it prevents the emergence of a truly massive …

Applying peer-to-peer (P2P) architecture to online video games has already attracted both
academic and industrial interests, since it removes the need for expensive server …

State management is a basic requirement for multiuser virtual environments (VEs) such as
massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs). Current MMOGs rely on centralized server …

Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) are increasing in both popularity and scale,
and while classical Client/Server (C/S) architectures convey some benefits, they suffer from …

With widespread use of the Internet, Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) are
becoming increasingly popular. As MMOGs scale up, conventional Client/Server (C/S) …

Recently, there has been significant research focus on Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Massively
Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs). A number of architectures have been presented in the …

This paper focuses on flexible context architectures for a multi-user GUI (MUG) that serves
several users engaged in collaborative computer-aided applications (CAx). Our work …

Networked virtual environments (NVEs) are computer-generated virtual worlds where users
interact by exchanging messages via network connections. Each NVE user often pays …

Today, highly successful Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) have millions of
registered users and hundreds of thousands of active concurrent players. To sustain their …