NDLI: Interest modeling in games: the case of dead reckoning

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Author	Yahyavi, Amir Huguenin, Kévin Kemme, Bettina
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	In games, the goals and interests of players are key factors in their behavior. However, techniques used by networked games to cope with infrequent updates and message loss, such as dead reckoning, estimate a player’s movements based mainly on previous observations. The estimations are typically made by using dynamics of motion, taking only inertia and some external factors (e.g., gravity, wind) into account while completely ignoring the player’s goals (e.g., chasing other players or collecting objects). This paper proposes AntReckoning: a dead reckoning algorithm, inspired from ant colonies, which models the players’ interests to predict their movements. AntReckoning incorporates a player’s interest in specific locations, objects, and avatars in the equations of motion in the form of attraction forces. In practice, these points of interest generate pheromones, which spread and fade in the game world, and are a source of attraction. To motivate and validate our approach we collected traces from Quake III. We conducted specific experiments that demonstrate the effect of game-related goals, map features, objects, and other players on the mobility of avatars. Our simulations using traces from Quake III and World of Warcraft show that AntReckoning improves the accuracy by up to 44 % over traditional dead reckoning techniques and can decrease the upload bandwidth by up to 32 %.
Starting Page	255
Ending Page	270
Page Count	16
File Format	PDF
ISSN	09424962
Journal	Multimedia Systems
Volume Number	19
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	14321882
Language	English
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Publisher Date	2012-07-07
Publisher Place	Berlin, Heidelberg
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Interest modelling Dead reckoning Multi-player online games Ant colonies Multimedia Information Systems Computer Communication Networks Operating Systems Data Storage Representation Data Encryption Computer Graphics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Computer Networks and Communications Information Systems Media Technology Hardware and Architecture Software

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