From Declarative Languages to Declarative Processing in Computer Games
Summary: Treats game/simulation AI as declarative processing by compiling imperative scripts to relational algebra and executing them on DB-like main-memory engines to unlock large performance gains. Presents a research agenda: language support for atomic/reactive actions, adaptive in-memory query planning, multicore/parallel execution, debugging simulation scripts, and extensions for multiplayer virtual worlds. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Ben Sowell (Cornell University)
- 2. Alan Demers (Cornell University)
- 3. Johannes Gehrke (Cornell University)
- 4. Nitin Gupta (Cornell University)
- 5. Haoyuan Li (Cornell University)
- 6. Walker White (Cornell University)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{sowell_cidr09,
address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
series = {{CIDR} '09},
title = {{From Declarative Languages to Declarative Processing in Computer Games}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
author = {Sowell, Ben and Demers, Alan and Gehrke, Johannes and Gupta, Nitin and Li, Haoyuan and White, Walker},
year = {2009}
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 9,255 | Database Research in Computer Games | 2009 | SIGMOD | 5.297624e-05 |
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| 6 | Pig Latin: A Not-So-Foreign Language for Data Processing | 2008 | SIGMOD | 0.0010686205 |
| 289 | Optimization of Dynamic Query Evaluation Plans | 1994 | SIGMOD | 0.00022278876 |
| 497 | The Design of XPRS | 1988 | VLDB | 0.00017462492 |
| 7,877 | Scaling Games to Epic Proportions | 2007 | SIGMOD | 5.5248563e-05 |
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