Date of Award

2014

Publisher

North Dakota State University

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Awarded

Master of Science (MS)

Program

Computer Science

Department

Computer Science

College

Engineering

Faculty Advisor

Slator, Brian

Description

JavaMOO is an architecture for creating multiuser virtual environments using the MUD (Multi-User Dungeon) and MOO (MUD Object Oriented) design patterns (rooms and objects in the rooms, including \exit" objects that lead to other rooms). The MOO design pattern traces it roots back to the rst multiuser virtual environments in the early 1980s. The focus of this thesis is joining the MOO design pattern with a distributed architecture. A distributed architecture is pursued to reduce the per-server computational load, compared to a traditional single-server approach. The e ect of transferring computational load to the client software is also investigated, with particular attention to the case of a graphical client with rich 3D visualizations. This results in an architecture employing a RESTful (REpresentational State Transfer) common interface and non-authoritative state synchronization that supports the MOO design pattern, uses fewer server-side resources, and is deployable as a network of distributed servers.

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NDSU Policy 190.6.2

Rights Link

https://www.ndsu.edu/fileadmin/policy/190.pdf

Handle Identifier

https://hdl.handle.net/10365/27587

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