@conference {2954, title = {Managing Objects in P2P DVEs}, booktitle = {2009 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA-09), Las Vegas, NV, USA}, year = {2009}, month = {July 13 - 16}, pages = { 783 - 789}, abstract = {Peer to Peer Distributed Virtual Environment systems have become a scalable solution for supporting a large number of users. One of the main challenges for these systems is to solve the awareness problem, since it is necessary for providing a consistent view of the environment to each participant of the simulation. Although different strategies have been proposed, they exclusively focus on users. Nevertheless, most of current DVE systems include additional non-autonomous elements, denoted as objects, whose state should also be known to system clients. This paper studies the different attributes and characteristics that objects can have and can affect to their management. Based on this study, this paper presents an extension of a previously proposed avatar awareness method (COVER), re-designed and modified for providing object awareness in a distributed way. The performance evaluation results show that the resulting awareness technique allows system users to efficiently manage objects in a distributed way without affecting the overall performance of the system.}, author = {Christos Bouras and Eleftheria Giannaka and S Rueda and P Morillo and J Orduna} }