The 8th International Workshop on Massively Multiuser Virtual Environments

MMVE 2016

at the ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys) May 10-13, 2016 Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, Austria

Welcome!

The 8th International Workshop on Massively Multiuser Virtual Environments provides a forum for researchers and practitioners in the field, and will encourage discussions based on the presented papers to identify current and future research topics. The workshop is interested in raising discussions about the following questions: (1) How is MMVE technology developed for games reused for distributed virtual environments in other domains, such as training?, (2) How do the life-cycles and payment models of games integrated into social networking systems (Facebook etc.) influence game development?, and (3) How can MMVE technology leverage parallel computing technology, including multicore (Cell, GPU), tight clustering (transactional memory, distributed shared memory) and distributed systems (P2P, Clouds)?

As an intended focal point of discussion, for this edition we particularly solicit contributions related to the various challenges that recent advances in virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) pose to MMVE systems and architectures.

News

2016-04-12 The full MMVE workshop programme and MMSys schedule for Thursday, May 12 is now available online.

2016-02-04 Submission deadline for workshops extended by two weeks until February 19, 2016. Call for papers [ PDF | TXT ].

2015-12-01 Shared keynote by Dieter Schmalstieg on AR systems confirmed.

2015-10-22 The updated call for papers is now available for download in various formats [ PDF | TXT ].

2015-10-20 Submission details have been added to the website.

2015-07-01 The preliminary call for participation is now available for download [ PDF ].

Programme

Thursday, May 12, 2016

MMVE Session

Topics

Designing, developing, and deploying Massively Multiuser Virtual Environment (MMVE) systems is highly interdisciplinary and involves research and experts from many domains of computer science, e.g., graphics, networking, protocol and architecture design, but also other fields such as the social sciences.

The workshop addresses the following MMVE topics:

• Scalability, the ability to handle at least thousands of concurrent users, interacting via Internet.
• Interactivity, how to provide responsive, near real time interactions and user experience despite latency or jitter.
• Consistency, providing consistent views for users, despite the inherent delay in state updates.
• Persistence, the ability to save and access the world states despite disconnections and failures.
• Security and privacy, distributed algorithms allowing secure interactions and privacy guarantees.
• Interoperability, integration of multiple systems or providers with common protocols or clients.
• Bandwidth-restricted (mobile) devices, the integration of mobile devices for nomadic systems.
• Self-organizing architectures, load balancing and fault tolerance without manual configurations.
• Video, voice and content streaming, also in (mixed) 3D, remote presence, incremental deployment and updating.
• Content generation methods, procedural or by users.
• Implementation issues, novel approaches to address development challenges, including sociological aspects.

Submission

We solicit full-size papers (6 pages), as well as extended abstracts for posters (2 pages), covering one of the above or closely related topics. All submissions must be blinded and constitute original, unpublished work not under review elsewhere. Submissions will undergo a double-blind peer review process and will be selected based on their originality, merit and relevance to the workshop. Accepted papers must be presented by one of the authors at the workshop and will be indexed by ACM and included as part of the ACM MMSys 2016 proceedings.

To prepare your paper for submission, please use the ACM SIG Proceedings template. The submission process itself is handled online via our electronic submission system.

Important Dates

General Chair

Steering Committee

Technical Program Committee

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