Taxonomy Study of Interest Management in Distributed Virtual Environment
分布式虚拟环境中兴趣管理技术的分类研究

As the combination of virtual reality and network technology, distributed virtual environment (DVE) has widely availability. But the essential problem it faces is to build scalable communication architecture. Interest man- agement (IM) is an efficient method to solve this issue. In this article, we present a new taxonomy of interest manage- ment based on its three elements: (representation model, filtering rule, architecture), and classify most existed interest management methods according to it. Besides, we briefly introduce the IM method used in the AIMNET--a DVE sys- tem of Nanjing University.