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International Workshop on Scientific Engineering of Distributed Java Applications

FIDJI 2002: Scientific Engineering for Distributed Java Applications pp 111–121Cite as

Massively Distributed Virtual Worlds: A Framework Approach MaDViWorld: A Java Software Framework for Massively Distributed Virtual Worlds

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The aim of this paper is to briefly present the general concept of virtual worlds and then to focus on distributed and decentralized ones. MaDViWorld is a Java framework for massively distributed virtual worlds. We first present its software architecture and then discuss some of its specialized features, namely: the object structure and the distributed event model. These are the main aspects that evolved since the first version of the framework. To conclude, some example objects and further potentialities of the framework are discussed.

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  1. Department of Informatics, University of Fribourg, Rue P.-A. de Faucigny 2, CH-1700, Fribourg, Switzerland

    Patrik Fuhrer & Jacques Pasquier-Rocha

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  1. Départment d’Informatique Appliquée, Institut Supérieur de Technologie, 6, rue Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, 1359, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

    Nicolas Guelfi

  2. Dipartimento di Informatica e Scienze dell’Informazione (DISI), Universitá di Genova-Italy, Via Dodecaneso 35, 16146, Genova, Italy

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Fuhrer, P., Pasquier-Rocha, J. (2003). Massively Distributed Virtual Worlds: A Framework Approach MaDViWorld: A Java Software Framework for Massively Distributed Virtual Worlds. In: Guelfi, N., Astesiano, E., Reggio, G. (eds) Scientific Engineering for Distributed Java Applications. FIDJI 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2604. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36520-6_10

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