The evolution of interaction networks in massively multiplayer online games

Journal of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 69-94

  Putzke, Johannes ^a   Fischbach, Kai ^a   Schoder, Detlef ^a   Gloor, Peter A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b MIT

Author keywords

Actor based model; Exponential random graph model; Massively multiplayer online game; MMOG; Performance; SIENA; Social capital; Social network analysis

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; GRAPH THEORY; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; MARKETING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ACTOR-BASED MODELING; EXPONENTIAL RANDOM GRAPH MODEL; INTERACTION NETWORKS; MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER ONLINE GAMES; PERFORMANCE; REAL-WORLD; SIENA; SOCIAL CAPITALS; SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 77953103414     PISSN: 15583457     EISSN: 15369323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1jais.00221     Document Type: Article

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