A systematic classification of cheating in online games

Proceedings of 4th ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Network and System Support for Games, NetGames 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Yan, Jeff ^a   Randell, Brian ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cheating; Online Computer Games; Security; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958258551     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1103599.1103607     Document Type: Conference Paper

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