====== DIstributed SImulation & Online gaming (DISIO) ======


===== Technical Program =====

==== Schedule ====


^ Time Frame     ^ Description       ^
|              |                              |
| 09h00-10h30   | **Session 1**: Architectures (Chair Georgios K. Theodoropoulos)     |
| 10h30-11h00  | Coffee Break    |
| 11h00-12h30  | **Session 2**: Games and Simulation (Chair Wentong Cai)     |
|              |                              |
| 12h30-14h00  | Launch Break    |
|              |                              |
| 14h00-16h00  | **Session 3**: Architectures and Game Evaluation (Chair Gabriele D'Angelo)     |
| 16h00-16h30  | Coffee Break    |
| 16h30-18h00  | **Session 4**: Mobile Games (Chair Stefano Ferretti)   |
|              |                              |
| 18h00  | Conclusion   |

==== Session 1: Architectures ====

  * Laura Itzel, Verena Tuttlies, Gregor Schiele and Christian Becker. \\ **Consistency Management for Interactive Peer-to-Peer based Systems**.
  * Chandana Ghosh, Paul Wiegand, Brian Goldiez and Troy Dere. \\ **An Architecture Supporting Large Scale MMOGs**.
  * Yusen Li, Wentong Cai. \\ **Consistency Aware Update Schedule in Multi-Server Distributed Virtual Environments**.

==== Session 2: Games and Simulation ====

  * Alexandre Denault and Jörg Kienzle. \\ **The Perils of Using Simulations to Evaluate Massively Multiplayer Game Performance**.
  * Stefano Ferretti, Gabriele D'Angelo. \\ **Multiplayer Online Games over Scale-Free Networks: a Viable Solution?**
  * Philip Murgatroyd, Vincent Gaffney Gaffney, Bart Craenen Craenen, Georgios Theodoropoulos, Vinoth Suryanarayanan and John Haldon. \\ **Medieval Military Logistics: A Case for Distributed Agent-based Simulation**. 

==== Session 3: Architectures and Game Evaluation ====

   * Vittorio Ghini, Stefano Ferretti, Fabio Panzieri. \\ **Mobile Games Through the Nets: a Cross-Layer Architecture for Seamless Playing**.
   * Marco Picone, Stefano Sebastio, Stefano Cagnoni and Michele Amoretti. \\ **Peer-to-Peer Architecture for Real-Time Strategy MMOGs with Intelligent Cheater Detection**.
   * Emilio Ferrara, Giacomo Fiumara and Francesco Pagano. \\ **Living City, a Collaborative Browser-based Massively Multiplayer Online Game**.
   * Dorel Picovici and David Denieffe. \\ **Subjective-Based Quality Assessment for Online Game**.

==== Session 4: Mobile Games ====

   * Abdul Malik Khan, Ivica Arsov, Marius Preda, Sophie Chabridon and Antoine Beugnard. \\ **Adaptable client-server architecture for mobile multi-player games**.
   * Claudio Palazzi, Nadjib Achir, Khaled Boussetta and Arnaud Kaiser. \\ **A Preliminary Evaluation of Backup Servers for Longer Gaming Sessions in MANETs**.
   * Claudio Palazzi and Dario Maggiorini. \\ **Simon Says the Color: The Digital Evolution of an Outdoor Kids Game**.