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Towards Decentralized Networlds

Authors:
Hauke Coltzau

Keywords: networlds; networked virtual environments

Abstract:
Decentralized networlds can serve as platforms both for interaction between users and for content and service delivery. They may well be the next evolutionary step of the WWW. To gain acceptance of users and businesses, content and service providers must be able to keep their independence as in today's WWW and still maintain the impression of a coherent unlimited virtual world. Existing approaches emerged from the area of networked virtual environments have so far failed to fulfill these basic requirements. In this article, we present an architecture to build unlimited networlds, in which interaction between user and content provider is handled directly. This allows among others for real money trading as in the WWW. Additionally, we discuss our approach to build and maintain dynamic maps of the virtual world without need for centralized instances or any other form of global knowledge.

Pages: 27 to 34

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013

Publication date: August 25, 2013

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4340

ISBN: 978-1-61208-300-1

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from August 25, 2013 to August 31, 2013