1.Department of Information Technology (INTEC),Ghent University, IBBT,Ghent,Belgium
Abstract:
Networked Virtual Environments (NVEs) and Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) in particular offer huge digital environments characterized by tens of thousands of simultaneous users. To maintain a high Quality of Experience (QoE) these applications are typically hosted on dedicated server clusters and require custom management software which relies on knowledge of the inner workings of the application.