Scaling Games to Epic Proportions
Summary: Scales AI for games by reframing NPC scripting as data-management. Introduces SGL, a data-driven scripting language; uses advanced query processing and indexing to support epic-scale NPC behavior; experiments validate scalability. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Walker White (Cornell University)
- 2. Alan Demers (Cornell University)
- 3. Christoph Koch (Saarland University)
- 4. Johannes Gehrke (Cornell University)
- 5. Rajmohan Rajagopalan (Cornell University)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{white_sigmod07,
title = {{Scaling Games to Epic Proportions}},
author = {White, Walker and Demers, Alan and Koch, Christoph and Gehrke, Johannes and Rajagopalan, Rajmohan},
series = {{SIGMOD} '07},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/1247480.1247486},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1247480.1247486},
year = {2007}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 9 of 9 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,260 | Fast Checkpoint Recovery Algorithms for Frequently Consistent Applications | 2011 | SIGMOD | 0.00011293425 |
| 3,142 | Evita Raced: Metacompilation for Declarative Networks | 2008 | VLDB | 7.595954e-05 |
| 4,142 | Behavioral Simulations in MapReduce | 2010 | VLDB | 6.780997e-05 |
| 4,840 | An Experimental Analysis of Iterated Spatial Joins in Main Memory | 2013 | VLDB | 6.3842693e-05 |
| 5,802 | An Evaluation of Checkpoint Recovery for Massively Multiplayer Online Games | 2009 | VLDB | 5.9873396e-05 |
| 9,437 | Database Research in Computer Games | 2009 | SIGMOD | 5.1763176e-05 |
| 9,845 | SGL: A Scalable Language for Data-Driven Games | 2008 | SIGMOD | 5.1210015e-05 |
| 12,782 | From Declarative Languages to Declarative Processing in Computer Games | 2009 | CIDR | 4.9769913e-05 |
| 14,073 | SEMMO: A Scalable Engine for Massively Multiplayer Online Games | 2008 | SIGMOD | - |
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 666 | Progressive Approximate Aggregate Queries with a Multi-Resolution Tree Structure | 2001 | SIGMOD | 0.00014989211 |
| 5,608 | Extensible Optimization in Overlay Dissemination Trees | 2006 | SIGMOD | 6.0666142e-05 |
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