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Wildfire Wally: a volunteer computing game

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Evan Peck,

Maria Riolo,

Charles CusackAuthors Info & Claims

Future Play '07: Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Future Play

Pages 241 - 242

https://doi.org/10.1145/1328202.1328250

Published: 14 November 2007 Publication History

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Online casual games can be used to significantly enhance the productivity of volunteer computing. We call games which perform volunteer computing volunteer computing games. We introduce Wildfire Wally, a volunteer computing game capable of solving the maximum clique problem.

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Cusack, C. A., C. Martens, and P. Mutreja, "Volunteer Computing Using Casual Games," presented at FuturePlay 2006 International Conference on the Future of Game Design and Technology, London, Ontario, Canada, October 10--12, 2006. Published in Conference Proceedings.

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Wildfire Wally: a volunteer computing game
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction paradigms
      1. Web-based interaction
2. Mathematics of computing
  1. Discrete mathematics
    1. Combinatorics
      1. Combinatorial algorithms
  2. Mathematical software

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ISBN:9781595939432

DOI:10.1145/1328202

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University of Ontario Institute of Technology
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Mike Katchabaw
University of Western Ontario
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Jay Rajnovich
Algoma U

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Kimmel EArmen RSchlachter SSchumann MEstrada TTaufer MCrouse LZoppetti GMatheny M(2012)ExSciTecHProceedings of the 2012 IEEE 8th International Conference on E-Science (e-Science)10.1109/eScience.2012.6404451(1-8)Online publication date: 8-Oct-2012
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