Modeling player session times of online games

Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Network and System Support for Games, NetGames 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 23-26

  Chang, Francis ^a   Feng, Wu Chang ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

CLIENT-TRAFFIC; FRACTAL MODEL; ON-LINE GAMES; SESSION TIME; TRAFFIC BEHAVIOR; TRAFFIC CHARACTERISTICS; WEB TRAFFIC;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 79952839704     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/963900.963902     Document Type: Conference Paper

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