MMVE 2016 - 8th ACM International Workshop on Massively Multiuser Virtual Environments

ACM International Workshop on Massively Multiuser Virtual Environments (MMVE). Massively Multiuser Virtual Environment systems are spatial simulations that provide real-time human interactions among thousands to millions of concurrent users. MMVEs have experienced phenomenal growth in recent years in the form of massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) such as World of Warcraft, Lineage, Happy Farm, and social communities such as Second Life and Hobbo Hotel. The technical aspect of designing, developing, and deploying them is highly interdisciplinary and involves experts from many domains, e.g., graphics, networking, protocol and architecture designs. The MMVE workshop intends to provide a forum for both academic researchers and industry developers to investigate the architectural and system support for MMVEs. By gathering experts under one roof, we wish to discuss their findings, incite colaborations, and move the state of the art forward. Multimedia systems permeate many aspects of our daily life, and are steadily developed further.