Social network indices as performance predictors in a virtual organization

Proceedings of the 2012 4th International Conference on Computational Aspects of Social Networks, CASoN 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 144-149

  Wigand, Rolf T ^a   Agarwal, Nitin ^b   Osesina, O Isaac ^c   Hering, Winfried ^b   Korsgaard, M Audrey ^d   Picot, Arnold ^e   Drescher, Marcus ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK   (United States)

^b University of Arkansas   (United States)

^c AWARE INC   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^f TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

MMORPG; performance; predictive modeling; Social networks; virtual organizations

Indexed keywords

MMORPG; PERFORMANCE; PREDICTIVE MODELING; SOCIAL NETWORKS; VIRTUAL ORGANIZATION;

COMPUTATION THEORY;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84874065755     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CASoN.2012.6412393     Document Type: Conference Paper

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