-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [netgame-l] NetGames 2003: CFParticipation Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 06:09:16 -0400 From: Sugih Jamin jamin@eecs.umich.edu Reply-To: jamin@eecs.umich.edu To: netgame-l@pi4.informatik.uni-mannheim.de, game-culture@yahoogroups.com, digiplay@topica.com, mud-dev@kanga.nu

Call For Participation

NetGames 2003

http://confman.eecs.umich.edu/netgames2003/

May 22-23, 2003 at Electronic Arts Headquarters, Redwood City, California

Advance Program:

Thursday, May 22nd ==================

Breakfast 8:30-9:00

Session 1: 9:00-10:00 ===================== Welcoming Remarks

The Effect of Latency on User Performance in Warcraft III Nathan Sheldon, Eric Girard, Seth Borg, Mark Claypool, Emmanuel Agu Worcester Polytechnic Institute

*Counter-Strike Traffic Analysis in WAN Networks Arthur de Castro Callado, Suzana de F. Dantas, Veronica Teichrieb, Rodrigo S.B.G. Barbosa, Paulo G. Barros, Judith Kelner, Djamel F. Sadok Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

*Modeling Player Session Times of On-line Games Francis Chang, Wu-chang Feng OGI School of Science and Engineering at OHSU

Coffee break 10:00-10:30

Session 2: 10:30-12:00 ====================== A Fair Message Exchange Framework for Distributed Multi-Player Games Katherine Guo, Sarit Mukherjee, Sampath Rangarajan, Sanjoy Paul Lucent Bell Laboratories

Causality and Media Synchronization Control for Networked Multimedia Games: Centralized versus Distributed Yutaka Ishibashi, Shuji Tasaka Nagoya Institute of Technology

Bandwidth Requirement and Consistency Resolution Latency in Multiplayer Games Joseph D. Pellegrino, Constantinos Dovrolis University of Delaware, Georgia Institute of Technology

Lunch 12:00-1:30

Session 6: 1:30-2:30 ==================== *Access Network Delay in Networked Games T.Coppens, E. Deckers, D. De Vleeschauwer, W. Naudts, R. Smets, K. Spruyt, B. Van Doorselaer Alcatel Bell

*A Zone-based Gaming Architecture for Ad-Hoc Networks Sebastian Matas Riera, Oliver Wellnitz, Lars Wolf Technical University of Braunschweig

Mobility and Stability Evaluation in Wireless Multi-Hop Networks Using Multiplayer Games Frank F. H. Fitzek, L. Badia, P. Seeling, J. G. Schulte, T.Henderson

Universita di Ferrara, acticom GmbH, University College London

Coffee Break 2:30-3:00

Discussion Panel: 3:00-4:00 =========================== Multiplayer Games: What is the Research Agenda? Sugih Jamin, Wu-chang Feng, Troels Degn Johansson, Tristan Henderson

Session 3: 4:00 - 5:00 ====================== *Six in the City: Introducing Real Tournament: A Mobile IPv6 Based Context-Aware Multiplayer Game Keith Mitchell, Duncan McCaffery, George Metaxas, Joe Finney Univesity of Lancaster

*Experiences Using a Dual Wireless Technology Infrastructure to Support Ad-hoc Multiplayer Games Hartmut Ritter, Thiemo Voigt, Min Tian, Jochen Schiller Freie Universitaet Berlin

Human Pacman: A Sensing-based Mobile Entertainment System with Ubiquitous Computing and Tangible interaction Adrian David Cheok, Siew Wan Fong, Kok Hwee Goh, Xubo Yang, Wei Liu, Farzam Farzbiz National University of Singapore

Demos: 5:00-6:30 ================

Social Event: 6:30-done =======================

Friday, May 23rd ================

Breakfast 8:30 - 9:00

Keynote: 9:00 - 9:30 ==================== On Virtual Economies California State University - Fullerton

Session 4: 9:30-10:30 ===================== *A Multi-User Framework Supporting Video-Based Avatars Peter Quax, Tom Jehaes, Pieter Jorissen, Wim Lamotte Expertise Centre for Digital Media / Limburgs Universitair Centrum

Priority-Based Distribution Trees for Application-Level Multicast Juergen Vogel, Joerg Widmer, Dirk Farin, Martin Mauve, Wolfgang Effelsberg

University of Mannheim

Spatial Principles of Level-Design in Multi-Player First-Person Shooters Christian Guettler, Troels Degn Johansson IT University of Copenhagen

Coffee break 10:30-11:00

Session 5: 11:00am-12:00 ======================== *On the Geographic Distribution of On-line Game Servers and Players Wu-chang Feng, Wu-chi Feng OGI School of Science and Engineering at OHSU

*A Service Platform for On-Line Games Debanjan Saha, Sambit Sahu, Anees Shaikh IBM TJ Watson Research Center

What Do Online Gamers Really Think of the Internet? Manuel Oliveira, Tristan Henderson University College London

Closing Remarks

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