08:30 - 09:00 Registration and
Breakfast
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09:00 - 09:15 Opening
Remarks
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09:15 - 10:15
Keynote 1
Next
Generation Virtual Worlds (Slides)
Michael Macedonia (Vice President and General Manager, Forterra Systems)
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10:15
-
10:45
Coffee Break
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10:45 - 11:45
Session 1 - Impact of Avatar Movement & Players' Behavior
on Games
Session chair: Alexandru
Iosup (Delft University of
Technology, Netherlands)
- Avatar
movement
in
World
of Warcraft Battlegrounds
(Slides)
John L. Miller (Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK);
Jon Crowcroft (University of Cambridge, UK)
- Hack,
Slash,
and
Chat:
A study of players’ behavior and communication in
MMORPGs (Slides)
Mirko Sužnjević (University of Zagreb, HR); Ognjen Dobrijevic
(University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing,
HR); Maja Matijasevic (University of Zagreb, HR)
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11:45 - 13:30 Lunch Break
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13:30 - 15:00
Session 2 - Mobile and Wireless
Games
Session
chair: Khaled Boussetta (University of Paris 13, France)
- Measurement
and
Analysis
of
World of Warcraft in Mobile WiMAX Networks
(Slides)
Xiaofei Wang (Seoul national
university, KR); Hyun-chul Kim (Seoul National University, KR);
Athanasios Vasilakos (University of Western Macedonia, GR); Taekyoung Kwon (Seoul National University, KR);
Yanghee Choi (Seoul National University, KR); Sunghyun Choi (Seoul
National University, KR); Jang Hanyoung (XRONet Corporation, KR)
- 802.11
Wireless
LAN
Multiplayer
Game Capacity and Optimization (Slides)
Hanghang
Qi (Hamilton Institute, NUIM, IE); David
Malone (NUI Maynooth, IE); Dimitri D Botvich (Waterford Institute of
Technology, IE)
- Posters
&
Demos
Short
Introduction Talks
|
15:00 - 16:00
Session 3 - Posters & Demos
(refreshments provided)
- FizzX:
Multiplayer
Time
Manipulation in
Networked Games (Poster)
Saurabh Ratti
(University of Ottawa, CA); Colin Towle
(University of
Ottawa, CA); Pascal Proulx (University of Ottawa, CA); Shervin
Shirmohammadi (University of
Ottawa, CA)
- Transparency
Analysis
and
Haptic
Synchronization for Transparency of
Force-reflecting Teleoperation (Poster)
Seokhee
Lee
(Gwangju
Institute
of Science and Technology, KR); Yutaka Ishibashi
(Nagoya Institute of Technology, JP); JongWon Kim (GIST-Gwangju
Institute of Science & Technology, KR)
- AOI
cast by Tolerance Based Compass Routing in Distributed Virtual
Environments (Poster)
Michele Albano
(University of Pisa, IT); Luca Genovali (IMT, IT); Antonio Quartulli
(University of Trento, IT); Laura Ricci (University of Pisa, IT)
- Peer-to-Peer
Support
for
Low-Latency
Massively Multiplayer Online Games in the Cloud (Poster)
Richard Süselbeck (University of Mannheim, DE); Gregor A Schiele
(University of Mannheim, DE); Christian Becker (Universität
Mannheim, DE)
- Player-Customized
Puzzle
Instance
Generation for Massively Multiplayer
Online Games (Poster)
Alexandru Iosup (Delft University of Technology, NL)
- On
Prophesying Online Gamer Departure (Poster)
Pin-Yun Tarng (National Taiwan University, TW); Kuan-Ta Chen (Academia
Sinica, TW); Polly Huang (National Taiwan University, TW)
- Capturing
and
Storing
Profile Information for Gamers Playing
Multiplayer Online Games (Poster)
Tomas Hildebrandt (TU Darmstadt, DE); Sonja Bergsträßer
(Technical University of Darmstadt, DE); Christoph Rensing (Technical
University of Darmstadt, DE); Ralf Steinmetz (Technische Universitaet
Darmstadt, DE)
- Interconnection
of
Game
Worlds
and Physical Environments in Educational Settings (Poster)
Raphael Zender (University of
Rostock, DE); Ulrike Lucke (University of
Rostock, DE); Dennis Maciuszek (University of Rostock, DE); Alke
Martens (University of Rostock, DE)
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16:00 - 17:30
Session 4 - P2P
Game
Architecture
Session chair: John L. Miller (Microsoft
Research,
UK)
- Distributed
Avatar
Management
for
Second Life (Slides)
Matteo Varvello (Eurecom-Thomson, FR); Stefano Ferrari (Politecnico di
torino, IT); Ernst W Biersack (EURECOM, FR); Christophe Diot (Thomson,
FR)
- Peer
NAT Proxies for Peer-to-Peer Applications (Slides)
Daryl Seah (National University of Singapore, SG); Wai Kay Leong
(National University of Singapore, SG); Qingwei Yang (National
University of Singapore, SG); Ben Leong (National University of
Singapore, SG); Razeen Ali (National University of Singapore, SG)
- Bandwidth-Aware
Peer-to-Peer
3D
Streaming
(Slides)
Chien-Hao Chien (National Central University, TW); Shun-Yun Hu
(National Central University, TW); Jehn-Ruey Jiang (National
Central University, TW)
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| 20:00 -
Workshop Banquet |
