Scalable reputation management with trustworthy user selection for P2P MMOGs

International Journal of Advanced Media and Communication

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 380-401

  Huang, Guan Yu ^a   Hu, Shun Yun ^a   Jiang, Jehn Ruey ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Distributed reputation management; P2P; Peer to peer; Trustworthy user selection; Virtual environments

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; INTERNET; VIRTUAL REALITY;

MASSIVELY MULTI-PLAYER ONLINE GAMES; NORMAL OPERATIONS; PEER TO PEER; RECENT RESEARCHES; REPUTATION MANAGEMENT; REPUTATION QUERIES; RESOURCE SHARING; USER SELECTION;

PEER TO PEER NETWORKS;

EID: 58149359234     PISSN: 14624613     EISSN: 17418003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJAMC.2008.022222     Document Type: Article

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