JEAN BOTEV

PUBLICATIONS

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Johannes Günter Herforth, Jean Botev. A3Cplus – Efficient Anatomically Accurate Avatar Creation. Accepted to the 16th International Workshop on Immersive Mixed and Virtual Environment Systems (MMVE 2024) at the 15th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys 2024), Bari, Italy, April 2024.

Sahar Niknam, Jean Botev. Predicting Cognitive Failures in Virtual Reality Using Pupillometry. In Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence & Extended and Virtual Reality (AIxVR 2024), Los Angeles, CA, USA, January 2024.

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Stéven Picard, Jean Botev. Rhythmic Stimuli and Time Experience in Virtual Reality. In Proceedings of the 20th EuroXR International Conference (EuroXR 2023), Rotterdam, The Netherlands, November/December 2023. SCIENTIFIC PAPER HONORABLE MENTION AWARD

Ningyuan Sun, Jean Botev. Technological Immersion and Delegation to Virtual Agents. In Multimodal Technologies and Interaction (MTI), Volume 7, November 2023.

Anthony Stein, Sven Tomforde, Jean Botev, Peter R. Lewis. Editorial: Special Issue on Lifelike Computing Systems. In Artificial Life, Volume 29, Issue 4, November 2023.

Stéven Picard, Jean Botev, Sahar Niknam. A Dynamic and Scriptable Environment and Framework for Stimulus-Based Cognitive Research in Virtual Reality. In Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2023), Sydney, Australia, October 2023.

Stéven Picard, Jean Botev. Physiological Data, Fatigue, Task Performance, and Timing. In Proceedings of the 3rd International of the Timing Research Forum (TRF3), Portugal, October 2023.

Ningyuan Sun, Jean Botev, Pieter Simoens. The Effect of Rapport on Delegation to Virtual Agents. In Proceedings of the 23rd ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2023), Würzburg, Germany, September 2023.

Jean Botev, Sandra Camarda, Claude Ohlhoff. The Rallye Platform: Mobile Location-based Serious Games for Digital Cultural Heritage. In Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI International 2023) / 10th International Conference on Learning and Collaboration Technologies (LCT 2023), Copenhagen, Denmark, July 2023.

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Jean Botev, Ada Diaconescu, Heiko Hamann, Stephen Marsh, Francisco J. Rodríguez Lera. Editorial: Socio-Technical Ecologies – Design for Human-Machine Systems. In Frontiers in Robotics and AI, November 2022.

Ningyuan Sun, Jean Botev, Yara Khaluf, Pieter Simoens. Theory of Mind and Delegation to Robotic Virtual Agents. In Proceedings of the 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2022), Naples, Italy, August/September 2022.

Anthony Stein, Sven Tomforde, Jean Botev, Peter R. Lewis. Lifelike Computing Systems Workshop. In Proceedings of the Lifelike Computing Systems Workshop (LIFELIKE 2022) at the 20th International Conference on Artificial Life (ALIFE 2022), Trento, Italy, July 2022.

Aryobarzan Atashpendar, Christian Grévisse, Jean Botev, Steffen Rothkugel. Semantic and Interactive Search in an Advanced Note-taking App for Learning Material. In Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI International 2022) / 9th International Conference on Learning and Collaboration Technologies (LCT 2022), Gothenburg, Sweden, June/July 2022.

Stéven Picard, Jean Botev. Rhythmic Stimuli Effects on Subjective Time Perception in Immersive Virtual Environments. In Proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Immersive Mixed and Virtual Environment Systems (MMVE 2022) at the 13th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys 2022), Athlone, Ireland, June 2022.

Jean Botev, Kirstie L. Bellman. A Dialogue on Socio-Technical Systems and Situation Awareness. In Proceedings of the 12th IEEE Conference on Cognitive and Computational Aspects of Situation Management (CogSIMA 2022), Salerno, Italy, June 2022.

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Jean Botev, Knut Drewing, Heiko Hamann, Yara Khaluf, Pieter Simoens, Argiro Vatakis. ChronoPilot – Modulating Time Perception. In Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality (AIVR 2021), Taichung, Taiwan, November 2021.

Jean Botev, Peter R. Lewis, Anthony Stein, Sven Tomforde. Lifelike Computing Systems Workshops. In Proceedings of the 1st and 2nd International Workshop on Lifelike Computing Systems (LIFELIKE 2020 & 2021), November 2021.

Ningyuan Sun, Jean Botev. Why Do We Delegate to Intelligent Virtual Agents? Influencing Factors on Delegation Decisions. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI 2021), Nagoya, Japan, November 2021.

Ningyuan Sun, Jean Botev. Intelligent Autonomous Agents and Trust in Virtual Reality. In Computers in Human Behavior Reports (CHBR), Volume 4, October 2021.

Ningyuan Sun, Jean Botev. Virtual Agent Representation for Critical Transactions. In Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Immersive Mixed and Virtual Environment Systems (MMVE 2021) at the 12th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys 2021), Istanbul, Turkey, September/October 2021.

Jean Botev, Tarek El-Ghazawi, Christopher Stewart. Message from the General Chairs. In Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems (ACSOS 2021), Washington, DC, USA, September/October 2021.

Jean Botev, Christian Grévisse, Steffen Rothkugel. Student Response Systems in Remote Teaching. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI International 2021) / 8th International Conference on Learning and Collaboration Technologies (LCT 2021), Washington, DC, USA, July 2021.

Anthony Stein, Sven Tomforde, Jean Botev, Peter R. Lewis. Lifelike Computing Systems. In Proceedings of the Lifelike Computing Systems Workshop (LIFELIKE 2021) at the 19th International Conference on Artificial Life (ALIFE 2021), Prague, Czech Republic, July 2021.

Jean Botev, Francisco J. Rodríguez Lera. Immersive Robotic Telepresence for Remote Educational Scenarios. In Sustainability, Volume 13, April 2021.

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Kirstie Bellman, Jean Botev, Ada Diaconescu, Lukas Esterle, Christian Gruhl, Chris Landauer, Peter R. Lewis, Phyllis R. Nelson, Evangelos Pournaras, Anthony Stein, Sven Tomforde. Self-improving System Integration: Mastering Continuous Change. In Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Volume 117, November 2020.

Ningyuan Sun, Jean Botev. Intelligent Adaptive Agents and Trust in Virtual and Augmented Reality. In Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2020), Recife/Porto De Galinhas, Brasil, November 2020.

Jean Botev, Adriano Viegas Milani. Forest SaVR – A Virtual-Reality Application to Raise Awareness of Deforestation. In Proceedings of the 17th GI VR/AR Workshop (VAR 2020), Trier, Germany, September 2020. BEST DEMO/POSTER AWARD

Jean Botev. Self-Integration in Mediated-Reality Systems: a Socio-Technical Perspective. In Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Self-Improving System Integration (SISSY 2020) at the 1st IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems (ACSOS 2020), Washington, DC, USA, August 2020.

Jean Botev, Francisco J. Rodríguez Lera. Immersive Telepresence Framework for Remote Educational Scenarios. In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI International 2020) / 7th International Conference on Learning and Collaboration Technologies (LCT 2020), Copenhagen, Denmark, July 2020.

Andrew Perkis, Christian Timmerer, et al. QUALINET White Paper on Definitions of Immersive Media Experience (IMEx). European Network on Quality of Experience in Multimedia Systems and Services, 14th QUALINET meeting at the 12th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX 2020), Athlone, Ireland, May 2020.

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Jean Botev, Joe Mayer, Steffen Rothkugel. Immersive Mixed Reality Object Interaction for Collaborative Context-Aware Mobile Training and Exploration. In Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Immersive Mixed and Virtual Environment Systems (MMVE 2019) at the 10th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys 2019), Amherst, MA, USA, June 2019.

Chloe M. Barnes, Kirstie Bellman, Jean Botev, Ada Diaconescu, Lukas Esterle, Christian Gruhl, Chris Landauer, Peter R. Lewis, Phyllis R. Nelson, Anthony Stein, Christopher Stewart, Sven Tomforde. CHARIOT – Towards a Continuous High-level Adaptive Runtime Integration Testbed. In Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Self-Improving System Integration (SISSY 2019) at the 13th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2019), Umeå, Sweden, June 2019.

Jean Botev, Anthony Stein, Sven Tomforde. 7th International Workshop on Self-Optimisation in Autonomic and Organic Computing Systems. In Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Architecture of Computer Systems (ARCS 2019), Copenhagen, Denmark, May 2019.

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Christian Grévisse, Jeff Meder, Jean Botev, Steffen Rothkugel. Ontology Coverage Tool and Document Browser for Learning Material Exploration. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2018), Berlin, Germany, September 2018. BEST PAPER AWARD

Kirstie Bellman, Jean Botev, Ada Diaconescu, Lukas Esterle, Christian Gruhl, Chris Landauer, Peter R. Lewis, Anthony Stein, Sven Tomforde, Rolf P. Würtz. Self-Improving System Integration – Status and Challenges After Five Years of SISSY. In Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Self-Improving System Integration (SISSY 2018) at the 12th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2018), Trento, Italy, September 2018.

Jacob Beal, Nelly Bencomo, Jean Botev. Message from the Program Committee Chairs. In Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2018), Trento, Italy, September 2018.

Anthony Stein, Sven Tomforde, Jean Botev. 6th International Workshop on Self-Optimisation in Autonomic and Organic Computing Systems. In Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Architecture of Computer Systems (ARCS 2018), Braunschweig, Germany, April 2018.

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Johannes Klein, Jean Botev, Steffen Rothkugel. Enabling Real-Time Collaboration in a Distributed Multimedia Editing Environment. In Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Multimedia Technologies for E-Learning (MTEL 2017) at the 19th IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM 2017), Taichung, Taiwan, December 2017.

Christian Grévisse, Jean Botev, Steffen Rothkugel. Learning Resource Management Through Semantic Annotation Features in Popular Authoring Software. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation (ICERI 2017), Seville, Spain, November 2017.

Johannes Klein, Jean Botev, Steffen Rothkugel. Distributed Document Authoring for Location-Independent Collaborative Learning. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation (ICERI 2017), Seville, Spain, November 2017.

Jean Botev, Steffen Rothkugel, Joe Mayer. Contour Drawing and Detection for Collaborative Context-Aware Mobile Training and Exploration. In Proceedings of the 16th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning (mLearn 2017), Larnaca, Cyprus, October 2017.

Johannes Klein, Jean Botev, Steffen Rothkugel. Concurrent Command and Consistency Management for Distributed Compound Document Authoring. In Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing (CIC 2017), San Jose, CA, USA, October 2017.

Kirstie Bellman, Jean Botev, Hanno Hildmann, Peter R. Lewis, Stephen Marsh, Jeremy Pitt, Ingo Scholtes and Sven Tomforde. Socially-Sensitive Systems Design. In IEEE Technology and Society Magazine (TSM), Volume 36, Issue 3, September 2017.

Jean Botev, Greg Ditzler. PhD Track / Doctoral Symposium. In Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2015), Tucson, AZ, USA, September 2017.

Jean Botev, Markus Esch, Ingo Scholtes. Fifth International Workshop on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organising Socio-Technical Systems (SASO^ST 2017). In Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2015), Tucson, AZ, USA, September 2017.

Christian Grévisse, Jean Botev, Steffen Rothkugel. An Extensible and Lightweight Modular Ontology for Programming Education. In Proceedings of the 12th Colombian Conference on Computing (CCC 2017), Cali, Colombia, September 2017. BEST PAPER AWARD

Jean Botev, Steffen Rothkugel. High-Precision Gestural Input for Immersive Large-Scale Distributed Virtual Environments. In Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Massively Multiuser Virtual Environments (MMVE 2017) at the 8th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys 2017), Taipei, Taiwan, June 2017.

Christian Grévisse, Jean Botev, Steffen Rothkugel. Yactul: An Extensible Game-Based Student Response Framework for Active Learning. In Proceedings of the 18th Virtual Educa International Conference, Bogotá, Colombia, June 2017.

Johannes Klein, Jean Botev, Steffen Rothkugel. Concurrency-Based and User-Centric Collaboration for Distributed Compound Document Authoring. In Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD 2017), Wellington, New Zealand, April 2017.

Christian Grévisse, Jean Botev, Steffen Rothkugel. Integration of Learning Material into an Advanced Project-Based Learning Support Platform. In Proceedings of the 11th International Technology, Education and Development Conference (INTED 2017), Valencia, Spain, March 2017.

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Jean Botev. Demonstrating the CollaTrEx Framework for Collaborative Context-Aware Mobile Training and Exploration. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Educational Technologies (ICEduTech 2016), Melbourne, Australia, December 2016.

Jean Botev. Report on the International Workshop on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organising Socio-Technical Systems (SASO^ST 2016). In Newsletter of the GI FG KuVS, December 2016.

Jean Botev, Ralph Marschall, Steffen Rothkugel. CollaTrEx – Collaborative Context-Aware Mobile Training and Exploration. In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Design, Learning & Innovation (DLI 2016), Esbjerg, Denmark, May 2016. BEST PAPER AWARD

Jean Botev. Eighth International Workshop on Massively Multiuser Virtual Environments (MMVE 2016). In Proceedings of the 7th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys 2016), Klagenfurt, Austria, May 2016.

Peter R. Lewis, Kirstie Bellman, Jean Botev, Hanno Hildmann, Stephen Marsh, Jeremy Pitt, Ingo Scholtes, Sven Tomforde. Socially-Sensitive Systems Design – Working Group on "Understanding Social Concepts in Self-Organising Systems". In Dagstuhl Reports (Seminar 15482: Social Concepts in Self-Organising Systems), Volume 5, Issue 11, March 2016.

Heiko Hamann, Yara Khaluf, Jean Botev, Mohammad Divband Soorati, Eliseo Ferrante, Oliver Kosak, Jean-Marc Montanier, Sanaz Mostaghim, Richard Redpath, Jon Timmis, Frank Veenstra, Mostafa Wahby, Aleš Zamuda. Hybrid Societies: Challenges and Perspectives in the Design of Collective Behavior in Self-Organizing Systems. In Frontiers in Robotics and AI (FROBT), Volume 3, Issue 14, March 2016.

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Johannes Klein, Jean Botev, Steffen Rothkugel. Layered Consistency Management for Advanced Collaborative Compound Document Authoring. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom 2011), Wuhan, China, November 2015.

Jean Botev, Steffen Rothkugel, Johannes Klein. Socio-Inspired Design Approaches for Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Collaborative Systems. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organising Socio-Technical Systems (SASO^ST 2015) at the 9th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2015), Cambridge, MA, USA, September 2015.

Gerrit Anders, Jean Botev, Markus Esch. Third International Workshop on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organising Socio-Technical Systems (SASO^ST 2015). In Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2015), Cambridge, MA, USA, September 2015.

Jean Botev. Structural Balance and Optimized Connectivity in Peer-to-Peer Massively Multiuser Virtual Environments. In Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Massively Multiuser Virtual Environments (MMVE 2015) at the 6th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys 2015), Portland, OR, USA, March 2015.

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Gerrit Anders, Jean Botev, Markus Esch. Second International Workshop on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organising Socio-Technical Systems (SASO^ST 2014). In Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2014), London, UK, September 2014.

Jean Botev. Anonymity, Immediacy and Electoral Delegation in Socio-Technical Computer Systems. In Socioinformatics – The Social Impact of Interactions between Humans and IT, August 2014.

Laurent Kirsch, Jean Botev, Steffen Rothkugel. The Snippet Platform Architecture – Dynamic and Interactive Compound Documents. In International Journal of Future Computer and Communication (IJFCC), Volume 3, Issue 3, June 2014.

Laurent Kirsch, Christian Grévisse, Jean Botev, Steffen Rothkugel. Reusable Functional Modules for Supporting Active Learning. In Proceedings of the World Conference on Educational Media and Technology (EdMedia 2014), Tampere, Finland, June 2014.

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Laurent Kirsch, Jean Botev, Steffen Rothkugel. The Snippet Platform Architecture – Dynamic and Interactive Compound Documents. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Information and Multimedia Technology (ICIMT 2013), Sydney, Australia, December 2013.

Laurent Kirsch, Jean Botev, Steffen Rothkugel. Context-Based Authoring and Management of Documents. In Proceedings of the World Conference on E-Learning (E-LEARN 2013), Las Vegas, NV, USA, October 2013.

Jean Botev. Anonymity, Immediacy and Electoral Delegation in Socio-Technical Networked Computer Systems. In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Socio-Informatics (Sozioinformatik 2013) at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the German Informatics Society (INFORMATIK 2013), Koblenz, Germany, September 2013.

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Laurent Kirsch, Jean Botev, Steffen Rothkugel. Snippets and Component-Based Authoring Tools for Reusing and Connecting Documents. In Journal of Digital Information Management (JDIM), Volume 10, Issue 6, December 2012.

Arash Atashpendar, Laurent Kirsch, Jean Botev, Steffen Rothkugel. A Native Approach to Semantics and Inference in Fine-Grained Documents. In Proceedings of the 2nd Joint International Semantic Technology Conference (JIST 2012), Nara, Japan, December 2012.

Laurent Kirsch, Jean Botev, Steffen Rothkugel. The Snippet System – Reusing and Connecting Documents. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2012), Macau, August 2012.

Laurent Kirsch, Jean Botev, Steffen Rothkugel. An Extensible Tool Set for Creating Reusable Learning Resources. In Proceedings of the World Conference on Educational Media and Technology (EdMedia 2012), Denver, CO, USA, June 2012.

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Jean Botev. Sociality and Self-Organization in Next-Generation Distributed Environments. Doctoral Thesis, Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, December 2011.

Jean Botev, Wei Tsang Ooi, Ingo Scholtes. Getting Real – Self-Organized Resource Allocation on Second Life Avatar Traces. In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Massively Multiuser Virtual Environments (MMVE 2011) at the 10th IEEE International Symposium on Haptic Audio-Visual Environments and Games (HAVE 2011), Qinhuangdao, Hibei, China, October 2011.

Jean Botev, Marco Milanesio. CoDE – An Application-Layer Framework for Confidentiality in Distributed Environments. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Collaborative Social Computing (SocialComp 2011) at the 7th International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom 2011), Orlando, FL, USA, October 2011.

Jean Botev, Steffen Rothkugel. FloRA – Flock-Based Resource Allocation for Decentralized Distributed Virtual Environments. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Distributed Simulation and Online Gaming (DISIO 2011) at the 4th International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques (SIMUTools 2011), Barcelona, Spain, March 2011.

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Jean Botev, Ingo Scholtes. A Self-Organized Resource Allocation Scheme for Decentralized Distributed Virtual Environments. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom 2010), Chicago, IL, USA, October 2010.

Markus Esch, Jean Botev. Distance-aware Avatar Interaction in Online Virtual Environments. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Advances in Future Internet (AFIN 2010), Venice, Italy, July 2010.

Ingo Scholtes, Jean Botev, Markus Esch, Peter Sturm. Epidemic Self-Synchronization in Complex Networks of Kuramoto Oscillators. In Advances in Complex Systems (ACS), Volume 13, Issue 1, June 2010.

Jean Botev, Markus Esch, Hermann Schloss, Ingo Scholtes, Peter Sturm. HyperVerse: Simulation and Testbed Reconciled. In International Journal of Advanced Media and Communication (IJAMC), Volume 4, Issue 2, March 2010.

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Patrick Gratz, Jean Botev. Collaborative Filtering via Epidemic Aggregation in Distributed Virtual Environments. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom 2009), Washington, DC, USA, November 2009.

Markus Esch, Jean Botev, Hermann Schloss, Ingo Scholtes. Performance Evaluation of GP3 – A Grid-based Spatial Index Infrastructure. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations (ITNG 2009), Las Vegas, NV, USA, April 2009.

Jean Botev, Markus Esch, Hermann Schloss, Ingo Scholtes, Peter Sturm. HyperVerse: Simulation and Testbed Reconciled. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Massively Multiuser Virtual Environments (MMVE 2009) at IEEE Virtual Reality 2009 (VR 2009), Lafayette, LA, USA, March 2009.

Markus Esch, Jean Botev, Hermann Schloss, Ingo Scholtes. P2P-Based Avatar Interaction in Massive Multiuser Virtual Environments. In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Virtual Environments and Network-Oriented Applications (VENOA 2009) at the 3rd International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems (CISIS 2009), Fukuoka, Japan, March 2009.

Alexander Höhfeld, Patrick Gratz, Angelo Beck, Jean Botev, Hermann Schloss, Ingo Scholtes. Self-Organizing Collaborative Filtering in Global-Scale Massive Multi-User Virtual Environments. In Proceedings of the 24th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC '09), Honolulu, HI, USA, March 2009.

Hermann Schloss, Ingo Scholtes, Jean Botev, Markus Esch, Alexander Höhfeld, Peter Sturm. Fuzzy Logic Supported Consistency Management in DDVEs. In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Concepts of Massively Multiuser Virtual Environments (CoMMVE 2009) at the 16th ITG/GI Fachtagung Kommunikation in Verteilten Systemen 2009 (KiVS 2009), Kassel, Germany, March 2009.

Ingo Scholtes, Jean Botev, Markus Esch, Peter Sturm. Epidemic Self-Synchronization in Complex Networks. In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Complex Sciences: Theory and Applications (Complex' 2009), Shanghai, China, February 2009.

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Jean Botev, Markus Esch, Alexander Höhfeld, Hermann Schloss, Ingo Scholtes, Peter Sturm. The HyperVerse – Concepts for a Federated and Torrent-Based 3D Web. In International Journal of Advanced Media and Communication (IJAMC), Volume 2, Issue 4, December 2008.

Hermann Schloss, Jean Botev, Markus Esch, Alexander Höhfeld, Rainer Oechsle, Ingo Scholtes. HiOPS Overlay – Efficient Provision of Multicast in Peer-to-Peer Systems. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Networks (ICON 2008), New Delhi, India, December 2008.

Markus Esch, Jean Botev, Hermann Schloss, Ingo Scholtes. GP3 – A Distributed Grid-based Spatial Index Infrastructure for Massive Multiuser Virtual Environments. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Networked Virtual Environments (P2P-NVE 2008) at the 14th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2008), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, December 2008.

Hermann Schloss, Jean Botev, Markus Esch, Alexander Höhfeld, Ingo Scholtes, Peter Sturm. Elastic Consistency in Decentralized Distributed Virtual Environments. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Automated Solutions for Cross Media Content and Multi-channel Distribution (AXMEDIS 2008), Florence, Italy, November 2008.

Jean Botev, Markus Esch, Alexander Höhfeld, Hermann Schloss, Ingo Scholtes, Peter Sturm. HyperVerse – Towards a Self-Organizing and Sustainable Global-Scale Virtual Environment. In Proceedings of the 4th Microsoft Academic Days (MSAD 2008), Berlin, Germany, November 2008.

Ingo Scholtes, Jean Botev, Markus Esch, Hermann Schloss, Peter Sturm. Using Epidemic Hoarding to Minimize Load Delays in Distributed Virtual Environments. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom 2008), Orlando, FL, USA, November 2008.

Ingo Scholtes, Jean Botev, Markus Esch, Alexander Höhfeld, Hermann Schloss. Awareness-Driven Phase Transitions in Very Large Scale Distributed Systems. In Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2008), Venice, Italy, October 2008.

Jean Botev, Markus Esch, Alexander Höhfeld, Hermann Schloss, Ingo Scholtes. The HyperVerse - Concepts for a Federated and Torrent-Based 3D Web. In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Massively Multiuser Virtual Environments (MMVE 2008) at IEEE Virtual Reality 2008 (VR 2008), Reno, NV, USA, March 2008.

Markus Esch, Hermann Schloss, Ingo Scholtes, Jean Botev, Alexander Höhfeld, Benjamin Zech. SimCon – A Simulation and Visualization Environment for Overlay Networks and Large-Scale Applications. In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques for Communications, Networks and Systems (SIMUTools 2008), Marseille, France, March 2008.

Ingo Scholtes, Jean Botev, Markus Esch, Alexander Höhfeld, Hermann Schloss, Benjamin Zech. TopGen – Internet Router-Level Topology Generation Based on Technology Constraints. In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques for Communications, Networks and Systems (SIMUTools 2008), Marseille, France, March 2008.

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Jean Botev. Massively Distributed, Service-Oriented Applications Based on Public Servers and Microsoft .NET 3.0 – Exemplary Implementation of a Federated Geodata Service for the 3D Internet. Degree Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Trier, Germany, December 2007.

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Jean Botev. Approximate Neighbourhood Function (ANF) – a LEDA-Based Implementation in C++. Technical Paper, Department of Computer Science, University of Trier, Germany, February 2006.