The paper addresses the purposes and design decisions produced while developing a peer-to-peer virtual world platform. The work is being done within the FP7 VirtualLife project. Th...
This paper argues that the development of Collaborative Virtual Environment (CVE) technology must be guided by application and end user needs. A collaboration is described between ...
Daphne Economou, William L. Mitchell, Steve Pettif...
Internet-based virtual environments (VEs) let users explore multiple virtual worlds with many different geometric models which are downloaded rather than predistributed. To avoid ...
: Query transformation is a serious hurdle on semantic peer-to-peer environment. For interoperability between peers, queries sent from a source peer have to be efficiently transfor...
Group communication, providing virtual synchrony semantics, is a powerful paradigm for building distributed applications. For applications that require a large number of groups, s...