Branded with a scarlet "C": Cheaters in a gaming social network

WWW'12 - Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on World Wide Web

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 81-90

  Blackburn, Jeremy ^a   Simha, Ramanuja ^b   Kourtellis, Nicolas ^a   Zuo, Xiang ^a   Ripeanu, Matei ^d   Skvoretz, John ^c   Iamnitchi, Adriana ^a  

^a University of South Florida   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c University of Delaware   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cheating in online games; Social network analysis

Indexed keywords

CYBER-CRIMES; DIGITAL GAMES; GLOBAL POPULATION; INTERACTION NETWORKS; MULTI-PLAYER GAMING; ON-LINE GAMES; ON-LINE GAMING; ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; POPULATION DENSITIES; SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS; SOCIAL NETWORKS;

POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION STATISTICS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 84860853792     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2187836.2187848     Document Type: Conference Paper

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