An SOA-based architecture framework

Aalst, Wil M. P. van der; Beisiegel, Michael; Hee, K.M. van; König, Dieter; Stahl, Christian

doi:10.1504/ijbpim.2007.015132

Cited by 20 publications

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“…That concept in not new in the field of computer science but is relatively rarely applied, yet, in the field of games and serious games in particular. (Sprott & Wilkes, 2004), (Van Der Aalst, 2007). Additional benefits of using services is the lack of compile-time dependencies.…”

Section: Adaptability In Trainingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Concepts for Distributed Input Independent Architecture for Serious Games

Stavrev

Terzieva

Golev

2018

CBUP

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Serious games (SG) allow us to learn even when we are relaxing. These games are called “serious” because they allow us to be trained at domain-specific knowledge level. That is the main reason SG are gathering an even increasing research interest in recent years. In contrast with traditional, purely entertainment games, SGs architectures and design principles are under active investigation by researchers. Recent work in that field attempts to define how SG are structured, built, used and extended. However, there is still a lot of debate which design techniques are adequate or which techniques can be borrowed from other fields – such as computer science or mainstream entertainment games. The main objective of our research is three-fold: investigate and analyze current architectural approaches; summarize the top characteristics of a modern serious game; and propose an architecture that is coherent with current approaches. Following these principles, we determine that the prevailing views in the SGs area are that they should be distributed and modular, service-based and easily extendible. Building on top of that, we come up with a novel concept for creating serous games that are independent of their input devices and propose two ways that independence can be achieved. We briefly discuss the possible integration of 3-rd party services by using message queue brokers in a publish / subscribe manner. Finally, we summarize and propose different methods for extending our proposed approach.

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Section: Adaptability In Trainingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Concepts for Distributed Input Independent Architecture for Serious Games

Stavrev

Terzieva

Golev

2018

CBUP

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“…It is a set of ideas, recommendations, policies and practices for architectural design. One of its goals is to employ modularization and compositionality to achieve flexibility and to enable the reuse of software parts, in an attempt to manage the complexity of large systems [10,11].…”

Section: Service Oriented Architecturesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A case study on Service-Oriented Architecture for Serious Games

Carvalho

Bellotti

Berta

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Entertainment Computing

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Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a set of practices for architectural design of software that exploits services as loosely coupled components orchestrated to deliver various functionalities. The SOA paradigm is not well established in the Serious Games (SG) domain, but it is expected to provide benefits, particularly in reducing the conceptual and technological complexity of the development. In this paper, we propose and study the application of a SOA approach to SG development. We have used the SOA approach to develop an adaptive serious game for teaching basic elements of probability to high school and entry-level university students, called The Journey. Details of the architecture implementation are offered, as well as the results of an evaluation of the system using the Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM). Based on our experience, we argue that the SOA approach can make SG development shorter, more flexible and more focused.

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“…In our previous work [8], we have developed an SOA-based architecture framework which is similar to the service component architecture (SCA) [9]. In this article, we extended this work by a web service framework which allows to check the soundness property compositionally.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%