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What and Who
Scalability in Computer Games and Virtual Worlds
Johannes Gehrke
Cornell University
SWS Distinguished Lecture Series
Johannes Gehrke is Chief Scientist at Fast Search and Transfer and Associate
Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University.
Johannes' research interests are in the areas of data management, search, and
distributed systems. He has received a National Science Foundation Career
Award, an Arthur P. Sloan Fellowship, an IBM Faculty Award, the Cornell
College of Engineering James and Mary Tien Excellence in Teaching Award, and
the Cornell University Provost's Award for Distinguished Scholarship. He
co-authored the undergraduate textbook Database Management Systems
(McGrawHill (2002), currently in its third edition), used at universities all
over the world. Johannes was Program co-Chair of the 2004 ACM International
Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2004) and Program
Chair of the 33rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB
2007).
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English
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Date, Time and Location
Thursday, 20 March 2008
16:00
60 Minutes
E1 5
019
Saarbrücken
Abstract
Computer games and virtual worlds present the next frontier in digital
entertainment and social interaction. An important aspect of computer games
is the artificial intelligence (AI) of non-player characters. To create
interesting AI in games today, we can create complex, dynamic behavior for a
very small number of characters, but neither the game engines nor the style
of AI programming enables intelligent behavior that scales to a very large
number of non-player characters. I will talk about modeling game AI as a data
management problem, providing a scalable framework for games with a huge
number of non-player characters. I will also discuss applications of this
idea to crowd simulations. I will conclude with scalability challenges for
Massively Multiplayer Online Games and collaborative environments.
This talk describes joint work with Alan Demers, Christoph Koch, and Walker
White.
Contact
Brigitta Hansen
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Brigitta Hansen, 03/17/2008 16:22 -- Created document.