I6 Massive Multiplayer EvenT Integration System (i6 M2EtIS)

Project manager:	Prof. Dr. Richard Lenz, Dipl.-Inf. Thomas Fischer
Keywords:	MMOG; DEBS; Eventverarbeitung; Spiele; verteilte Systeme; Overlay-Netzwerke;
Start:	15.4.2009
Topics and Goals:	In recent years Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) provide the highest growth market in the gaming industry. The system architecture required for a virtual world of that kind states great challenges regarding complexity, scalability and real-time requirements for the underlying hardware, as well as the data-logistics of the software architecture. Generally an MMOG can be described as a distributed event based system. The requirements for event-processing in this domain are high due to the soft real-time requirements which ensure a fluent gaming experience. For example, a low latency or a certain level of consistency has to be guaranteed. Especially the scalability has to be kept in mind when designing such systems, because the fluent gaming experience has to be sustained, even if hundreds of thousands of players compete. In the i6 M2EtIS Project, we examine the exploitation of event semantics in MMOGs to improve scalability and performance. Different characteristic types of requirements are identified, in order to allow for an abstract semantic classification of events. The visionary target is the development of generic event-processing systems, which are optimized by the specification of abstract event-semantics.
Contact:	Fischer, Thomas Phone 09131 8527901, Fax 09131 8528854, E-Mail: Thomas.Fischer@cs.fau.de
Publications:	Fischer, Thomas ; Lenz, Richard: Event semantics in event dissemination architectures for massive multiuser virtual environments. . In: ACM (Ed.) : Proceedings of the Fourth ACM international Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems (DEBS ´10, Cambridge, United Kingdom, July 12 - 15, 2010). 2010, pp 93-94. [doi>10.1145/1827418.1827435] Fischer, Thomas ; Held, Johannes ; Lenz, Richard: M2etis: An adaptable Publish/Subscribe System for MMVEs based on Event Semantics . In: Fischer, Peter M. ; Höpfner, Hagen ; Klein, Joachim ; Nicklas, Daniela ; Seeger, Bernhard ; Umblia, Tobias ; Virgin, Matthias (Ed.) : Proceedings BTW 2011 - Workshops und Studierendenprogramm (BTW 2011, Kaiserslautern, 28.02.-04.03.2011). Kaiserslautern : Technische Universität, 2011, pp 23-32. (Schriftenreihe des Fachbreichs Informatik Vol. 30) - ISBN 978-3-941438-61-3 Fischer, Thomas ; Daum, Michael ; Irmert, Florian ; Neumann, Christoph P. ; Lenz, Richard: Exploitation of Event-Semantics for Distributed Publish/Subscribe Systems in Massively Multiuser Virtual Environments. . In: ACM (Ed.) : Concordia University (Org.): In Proceedings of the 2010 international Symposium on Database Engineering & Applications (IDEAS ´10, Montreal, QC, Canada, August 16 - 18, 2010). 2010. [doi>10.1145/1866480.1866494] Fischer, Thomas ; Lenz, Richard: Towards Exploitation of Event Semantics in Event Dissemination Architectures for Massive Multiuser Virtual Environments . In: ACM (Ed.) : DEBS PhD Workshops, Fourth ACM international Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems (DEBS ´10, Cambridge, United Kingdom, July 12 - 15, 2010). 2010. Fischer, Thomas ; Held, Johannes ; Lauterwald, Frank ; Lenz, Richard: Towards an adaptive event dissemination middleware for MMVEs . In: ACM (Ed.) : Proceedings of the 5th ACM international conference on Distributed event-based system (DEBS '11, New York, New York, USA, July 11-15, 2011). New York, NY, USA : ACM, 2011, pp 397-398. - ISBN 978-1-4503-0423-8 Keywords:  m2etis, debs, middleware, event, semantics [doi>10.1145/2002259.2002329]