Online-offline activities and game-playing behaviors of avatars in a massive multiplayer online role-playing game

Europhysics Letters

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Jiang, Zhi Qiang ^a,b   Zhou, Wei Xing ^a,b,c   Tan, Qun Zhao ^d  

^a EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d Shanda Interactive Entertainment Ltd   (China)

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EID: 77956898383     PISSN: 02955075     EISSN: 12864854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/88/48007     Document Type: Article

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