Towards an Information Model of Consistency Maintenance in Distributed Interactive Applications

A novel framework to model and explore predictive contract mechanisms in distributed interactive applications (DIAs) using information theory is proposed. In our model, the entity state update scheme is modelled as an information generation, encoding, and reconstruction process. Such a perspective f...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Xin Zhang, Tomás E. Ward, Séamus McLoone
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2008-01-01
Series:International Journal of Computer Games Technology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2008/371872