International Journal of Computer Games Technology
Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 594313, 9 pages
doi:10.1155/2008/594313
Research Article

ALVIC versus the Internet: Redesigning a Networked Virtual Environment Architecture

Peter Quax, Jeroen Dierckx, Bart Cornelissen, and Wim Lamotte

Expertise Center For Digital Media, tUL, IBBT, Hasselt University, Wetenschapspark 2, 3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium

Received 31 January 2008; Revised 25 April 2008; Accepted 16 June 2008

Academic Editor: Jouni Smed

Copyright © 2008 Peter Quax et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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