Mitigating information exposure to cheaters in real-time strategy games

Proceedings of the International Workshop on Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 7-12

  Chambers, Chris ^a   Feng, Wu Chang ^a   Feng, Wu Chi ^a   Saha, Debanjan ^b  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cheating; Games; Peer to peer

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

DISTRIBUTED SIMULATION; GAME GENRE; PEER-TO-PEER GAME;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 29844457630     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1065983.1065986     Document Type: Conference Paper

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