Conceptual Object Exchanges among Software Games by Non-programmers

Iaakov Exman, Guy Shimoni

2015

Abstract

A non-programmer, who is an expert game player, could easily grasp the idea of improving his jumping avatar by importing a flying property found in another game. But in order to actually exchange conceptual objects between games one would need a suitably transparent software infra-structure. We propose the usage of UFOs – Unidentified Flying Objects – that can be smoothly transmitted and embedded into the target game, and except for their conceptual label, are so-to-speak unidentified by the non-programmer. This approach has been designed and implemented into a distributed system of multiple software games in different mobile computers. Beyond games, this system serves as a feasibility proof for on-the-fly exchange of Conceptual Objects among any kinds of software applications.

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Exman I. and Shimoni G. (2015). Conceptual Object Exchanges among Software Games by Non-programmers . In Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Software Knowledge - Volume 1: SKY, (IC3K 2015) ISBN 978-989-758-162-5, pages 14-21. DOI: 10.5220/0005631400140021


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@conference{sky15,
author={Iaakov Exman and Guy Shimoni},
title={Conceptual Object Exchanges among Software Games by Non-programmers},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Software Knowledge - Volume 1: SKY, (IC3K 2015)},
year={2015},
pages={14-21},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005631400140021},
isbn={978-989-758-162-5},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Software Knowledge - Volume 1: SKY, (IC3K 2015)
TI - Conceptual Object Exchanges among Software Games by Non-programmers
SN - 978-989-758-162-5
AU - Exman I.
AU - Shimoni G.
PY - 2015
SP - 14
EP - 21
DO - 10.5220/0005631400140021