Trust Amongst Rogues? A Hypergraph Approach for Comparing Clandestine Trust Networks in MMOGs

Proceedings of the 5th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 10-17

  Ahmad, Muhammad Aurangzeb ^a   Keegan, Brian ^b   Williams, Dmitri ^c   Srivastava, Jaideep ^a   Contractor, Noshir ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; GOLD; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

ANALYSIS METHOD; DETECTION METHODS; HYPER GRAPH; MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER ONLINE GAMES; MULTI-MODAL; REAL-WORLD; TRUST NETWORKS; TRUST RELATIONSHIP; VIRTUAL RESOURCE;

COMMERCE;

EID: 84887005381     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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