User identification based on game-play activity patterns

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

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 7-12

  Chen, Kuan Ta ^a   Hong, Li Wen ^a  

^a ACADEMIA SINICA   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Account hijacking; Biometrical signatures; Kullback Leibler divergence; Online games; User behavior

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERNS; DETECTION TIME; GAME PLAYERS; GENERAL SOLUTIONS; HUMAN IDENTIFICATION; IDLE TIME DISTRIBUTION; KULLBACK LEIBLER DIVERGENCE; ON-LINE GAMES; SECURITY PROBLEMS; USER BEHAVIORS; USER IDENTIFICATION;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BIOMETRICS;

NETWORK SECURITY;

EID: 77953045862     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1326257.1326259     Document Type: Conference Paper

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