Background The present study was designed and conducted to determine the effect of video game play on pain of venipuncture in 3-6 year-old children. Materials and Methods This randomized controlled trial study was conducted on 80 hospitalized children with pain of venipuncture procedures. Playing a video computer game for children during the venipuncture procedures was the intervention for the ...

In this research, we use a formal method comparison approach to construct a reference method for game production. First, we analyze four game production methods by using a meta-modelling technique: three documented methods and one method obtained via a case study at a game production company. By developing a super method, containing all activities and concepts of four analyzed methods, we compa...

We introduce a new class of games, called social contribution games (SCGs), where each player’s individual cost is equal to the cost he induces on society because of his presence. Our results reveal that SCGs constitute useful abstractions of altruistic games when it comes to the analysis of the robust price of anarchy. We first show that SCGs are altruism-independently smooth, i.e., the robust...

Research in General Game Playing aims at building systems that learn to play unknown games without human intervention. We contribute to this endeavour by generalising the established technique of decomposition from AI Planning to multi-player games. To this end, we present a method for the automatic decomposition of previously unknown games into independent subgames, and we show how a general g...

This paper considers the advertising, pricing, and service decisions simultaneously to coordinate the supply chain with a manufacturer and a retailer. The amount of market demand is influenced by advertising, pricing and service decisions. In this paper, three well-known approaches to the game theory, including the Nash, the Stackelberg-retailer, and the cooperative game are exploited to study ...

The purpose of this paper is to give a description of a leisure time activity, in this case, an on-line fantasy baseball game, in terms of mathematical and game theory. Since the basis of computer science is mathematical theory, by thoroughly inspecting an Internet-based “fantasy” game, we can show the importance and advantages of using probability and statistical analysis as the foremost techn...

To keep an online game interesting to its users, it is important to know them. In this paper, in order to characterize user characteristics, we discuss clustering of online-game users based on their trails using Self Organization Map (SOM). As inputs to SOM, we introduce transition probabilities between landmarks in the targeted game map. An experiment is conducted confirming the effectiveness ...

Here in this paper, we propose a new method for the playing of digital game. We want to get ride of the limitation of traditional digital game in this method, that is, we use no keyboard, mouse, joystick, etc. Our system uses digital camera to get image, then operate image processing on these images. The result of analysis is rendered by virtual reality technique with example of boxing game.

this paper shows how game theory can be applied to modeling the interaction between government and manufacturer in implementation of cleaner production. a generic game model based upon ‘two-person non-cooperative’ static game is created to allow various strategic actions being tested by stages, and aid decision making by selecting optimal strategy for both manufacturer and policy maker to reduc...