Large scale distributed virtual environments (DVEs) have become a major trend in distributed applications, mainly due to the enormous popularity of multi-player online games in th...
Recently, peer-to-peer infrastructure has been proposed to support massively multiplayer games in the literature. However, when underlying network partitions due to network outages...
In this study, we examine human social interactions within virtual worlds and address the question of how group interactions are affected by the surrounding game environment. To i...