A measurement study of virtual populations in massively multiplayer online games

Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Network and System Support for Games, NetGames '07

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 25-30

  Pittman, Daniel ^a   GauthierDickey, Chris ^a  

^a University of Denver   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIRST LOOK; MASSIVELY MULTI-PLAYER ONLINE GAMES; MEASUREMENT STUDY; PLAYER BEHAVIOR; POWER LAW DISTRIBUTION; SCALABLE ARCHITECTURES; TIME SCHEDULES; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; RESEARCH; VIRTUAL REALITY;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

EID: 70449468915     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1326257.1326262     Document Type: Conference Paper

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